Gewenxin Yu

about

I am an MS student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Southern California, working toward doctoral research in audio signal processing, bioacoustics, and machine learning. I founded Mantle Sound in 2025 and hold an MSc in Sound and Music Computing from Queen Mary University of London.

My work spans from developing neural audio codecs for geophone recordings to creating environmental field recordings; since 2023 I have conducted expeditions across China, the UK, France, and Switzerland, most recently documenting the frozen high-altitude soundscape of Yema Haizi (~4,100 m) on the eastern Tibetan Plateau.

research

sound works

memberships

• Society for Music Perception and Cognition (SMPC)
• British Wittgenstein Society (BWS)
• International Playing-Card Society (IPCS)
• Free Software Foundation (FSF)