Sivan :D

One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. --Jack Kerouac

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Brooklyn, NY

I am a 2nd-year Ph.D. student in Computer Science advised by Juan Bello at the Music and Audio Research Lab, New York University, in Brooklyn, NY. I am mesmerized by human perception and embodiment, especially auditory perception, and how we model them in machines: machine listening and music information retrieval. My research goal is to make machines that can understand, deconstruct, and create sound. I’m interested in exploring compositionality, disentanglement, and generalizability in audio representation learning.

Previously, I worked as a research intern at Dolby Laboratories with wonderful people in San Francisco on all the cool stuff about spatial audio. I earned my master’s degree in data science from Columbia University in the City of New York, where I often found myself sneaking into the Computer Music Center for some sound art. I hold a bachelor’s degree in energy engineering (thermodynamics) at Wuhan University, China.

I make music and geek out on lots of things in my increasingly squeezed spare time, which you can learn more about on my “fun” website at sivan.fun.

News

Oct 23, 2023 2nd time volunteering at SANE Workshop 2023 hosted by MARL.
Sep 05, 2023 I started my Ph.D. journey at MARL, NYU.
Jul 08, 2023 Summer school on funk/fusion :guitar: at Berklee College of Music, Boston.
Jun 03, 2023 First ICASSP in Rhodes, Greece with paper SAMO.
Jan 30, 2023 First internship as an Acoustic Mapping Intern at Dolby, San Francisco with the Sound Technology Group.

Latest Posts

Selected Publications

  1. SAMO: Speaker Attractor Multi-Center One-Class Learning For Voice Anti-Spoofing
    Siwen Ding, You Zhang, and Zhiyao Duan
    In ICASSP 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Rhode Island, Greece , 2023
  2. Spatial Scaper: A Library to Simulate and Augment Soundscapes for Sound Event Localization and Detection in Realistic Rooms
    Iran R. Roman, Christopher Ick, Sivan Ding, and 3 more authors
    In ICASSP 2024 - 2024 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Seoul, Korea , 2024