Updated: 23rd April 2025 15:35 BST
π Pronouns: she/her
I am a 1st year PhD student in Hearing Sciences at the University of Nottingham. My thesis explores building scalable technologies to foster safe listening in music venues.
π Iβm currently working on:
- π dB SPL: A common data model for structuring and organising amplified sound data.
- βπΎ PhDemi: A blog to document my PhD journey
π©πΎβπ» My previous projects:
- π³ Sounding Climate Change: I explored how climate change data could be used to inform musical insights and ideas for climate-related concepts. I built a tool, ClimaTunes, to transform climate change data into musical motifs and phrases. This tool will become another interface for musical expression.
- π₯ Breast Cancer ML Study: I explored a Breast Cancer dataset to perform regression on response-free survival (RFS), and binary classification on pathological complete response (pCR). Using Python libraries such as pandas, numpy, seaborn and skit-learn and working in a group of 5 people.
- π©πΎβπ» Ovn. Tinder for recipes: To learn more about software quality assurance, we built a recipe dating app that will match individuals based on what recipes they like. The app frontend is a native Android application with Java, the backend is NodeJS with TypeScript.
π± Iβm currently learning:
- Flutter: Building an local offline recipe app π
- SQL and databases
- Academic writing βπΎ
π©πΎβπ» Favourite coding languages:
- Python
- Kotlin
- Swift
β‘ 3 fun facts:
- I interned at Google as a STEP Intern in 2021 π»
- I'm a musician (I play piano, violin, ukulele and I sing) πΆ
- I have perfect pitch!
- I'm currently part of a musical theatre group performing HMS Pinafore in June 2025!
π¬ Ask me about:
- PhD advice
- Tech advice
- CS advice
π« How to reach me: I'm active on Twitter @demiaoshin. I respond faster on Discord: demiao