Undergraduate Training
I obtained my Bachelor of Electrical Engineering at University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
For my bachelor thesis, I initiated a collaborative research project with The Bionic Ear Institute in Melbourne to develop and evaluate different signal processing strategies that could improve music perception for cochlear implant users.
Thesis title:
Music for Hearing Implants
Users of cochlear implants experience difficulties in listening to music. Improved processing of music signals for hearing implants requires an accurate and robust estimation of musical pitch. This thesis presents a comparative study of two different signal processing strategies for estimating the fundamental frequencies of almost-periodic input signals. Their performance with various inputs is compared, and implementation issues are discussed to ensure these strategies can be processed in real-time and are compatible with current cochlear implant technology.Supervisors:
- Dr W Harvey Holmes : Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales, Australia
- Dr Hugh McDermott: The Bionic Ear Institute, University of Melbourne, Australia