Gewenxin Yu
- Co-founder of the Mountaineering Acoustics Network (MAN).
- A dedicated field recordist with a deep passion for mountaineering and hiking: Have conducted several field recording experiments in China, the UK, France, and Switzerland since 2023.
- A meticulous typesetter, reprinter, and translator of historical music, poetry, and philosophical documents.
- A devotional poet: Writes poems on naturalistic-individualistic-spiritual-radical romanticism themes. (please send a email to request a pdf if you're interested in my works.)
- An ardent Linux user (Artix, Alpine and Manjaro Linux), developer and distributor of Free/Libre and Open-source softwares and decentralized network architectures; A philosophy-driven contributor with expertise in distributing and using various anonymity network technologies.
Research Interests
- General Sound and Music Computing (field recording in extreme environments, pan-electroacoustic composition, data sonification, digital signal processing, virtual Acoustics)
- The History of Music Ideas, Acoustics, and Sound Theories. Especially from the Middle Ages to modern times.
- Free/Libre and Open-source Principled Software Development
- Security, Privacy, and Anonymity Technologies
Code
Research
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Enhancing McAdams Coefficient-Based Speaker Anonymisation with Cross-Gender Timbre Transfer (2023) [pdf] [presentation] [url]
(Supervised by Dr. Charalampos Saitis, Communication Acoustics Lab at QMUL)
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Mountaineering Acoustics Network (MAN) (2025-) [url]
(Co-found with Cui Han)
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MAN Wiki (2025-) [url]
(A collaborative free wiki for the Mountaineering Acoustics Network)
Talks
- Brief Auditory Storage: Take the “Darwin1972” and “Treisman1972” as examples (Nov, 2022) [pdf]
- Source Mixing and Separation Robust Audio Stegenography (March, 2023) [pdf]
- Mantle IRM System Design Meeting (April, 2025) [pdf]
Contact
- g.yu at se22.qmul.ac.uk (please use this address for academic)
- qpwo1661@proton.me (for general topics)
