Curriculum Vitae

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I’m looking for exciting new challenges at the intersection between machine learning, voice technology and art, between scientific theory and applications in creative domains.

Research Interests

AI for voice, music, and sound:

Open to new challenges related to artistic media.

Experience

Research Scientist
Supertone Inc. • Korea
2024 - today
  • Research related to Supertone’s voice technology
    • Improve quality and controllability on voice backbone model
    • Analysis and transformation of room acoustics, pitch, subharmonics, breathiness and intensity
    • Self-supervised- and representation learning related to TTS
  • Application development: Develop and maintain voice editing tool using Supertone’s voice technology
Post-doc, Doctoral researcher, Intern
IRCAM • France
2018 - 2024
  • Research on deep learning for voice
    • 6 peer-reviewed publications including 5 as first author and 2 journal articles
    • Topics: Neural vocoding and representation, self-supervised learning, voice attribute transformation
  • Technical support for film, music and art: Bespoke implementations of voice transformation
  • Application development: Implement research results into voice editing and live transformation app
Intern
Siemens AG • Germany
2015
Teaching assistant
TU Darmstadt, Signal Processing Group • Germany
2014

Education

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Sorbonne Université • France
2019 - 2023
Master of Science (MSc) - Computational Engineering
TU Darmstadt • Germany
2015 - 2019
Bachelor of Science (BSc) - Electrical Engineering
TU Darmstadt • Germany
2012 - 2014

Additional Education

Additional credits - Mathematics & Music
TU Darmstadt • Germany
2013 - 2018
Study exchange
Tongji University • Shanghai, China
2014 - 2015
Study exchange
AC Davis High School • Yakima, WA, USA
2009 - 2010

Skills

Deep learning: Self-supervised learning, generative AI, representation learning, AI for speech and audio

Signal processing: Strong DSP background, DSP pre- and post-processing in AI, DDSP

Voice and language: Phonetics, source-filter model, physical voice production, voice acoustics

Music: Singing, Classical composition techniques, live coding (Tidal Cycles), Piano

Programming languages: Python (torch, tensorflow), Haskell, Java, Kotlin, Unix Shell (bash, zsh, fish)

App development: Android, GTK, VST

Languages: German (native), English (C2), French (B2), Polish (B1), Chinese (A2), Korean (basic)

Artistic Collaborations

Emilien Dubuc • Brin d'ADN/Odamado (Film) • IRCAM, Le Fresnoy
2023 - 2024
Patrick Case • Science fiction music (Studio album) • Bristol, UK
2023 - 2024
Omer Barash • G.N.Z. (Composition) • Espace de projection IRCAM
2023
Judith Deschamps • an·other voice (Installation) • Casino Luxembourg, C-LAB Taiwan
2022 - 2023
Aïda Shirazi • Né entre corps (Composition) • IRCAM, 35-37
2022
Sachie Kobayashi • Day 0 – Trans-instrumentalism (Composition) • IRCAM, Centre Pompidou
2022
Judith Deschamps • La Mue (Film) • IRCAM, Centre Pompidou
2021 - 2022
Bläser Philharmonie Aachen • AI vs. Composer (Composition) • RWTH Aachen
2018

Scholarships

Full PhD scholarship • EDITE de Paris (ED130)
2019 - 2022
Full study scholarship • Studienstifung des deutschen Volkes (SdV)
2015 - 2019
Deutschlandstipendium • TU Darmstadt, Inro Elektrotechnik, Siemens
2013 - 2014

Activities

Student representative for HCERES evaluation
2023
Founded a live coding ensemble with scientific staff at IRCAM
2021 - 2023
SdV Summer Academy on Impact on video streaming on film industry
2018
Orchestral composition Das Mädchen aus Hunan
2017 - 2018
Improvisation ensemble at Akademie für Tonkunst Darmstadt, Piano and Gyrophon
2016 - 2018
Comedian harmonists singing quartet at Staatstheater Darmstadt
2016 - 2018
Choir member Chor der TU Darmstadt
2012 - 2018
SdV Summer Academy on soundtrack and soundscape
2017
Composition at SdV Music Academy
2016 - 2017
Choir director Mathechor
2013 - 2014
Student representative at electrical engineering department of TU Darmstadt
2012 - 2014

Talks

Circe, the IRcam neural auto-encoder for voiCE • IRCAM Forum at NYU
2022
Quell'usignolo che innamorato, the resurgence of an artificial voice • Mercredis de STMS
2022
Workshop on neural vocoding • Deep Voice Paris
2021

Code

Checkout my gitlab page for code examples, though, unfortunately, most of my actual code cannot be made available.