Computational Topology and Signal Representation

Research internship on persistent homology and topology-based speech embeddings.

Research internship at SUSTech, supervised by Prof. Yifei Zhu (Mar 2024 – Sep 2024).

  • Studied topological data analysis with a focus on persistent homology and its computational pipeline.
  • Reviewed auditory Gestalt principles and explored mathematical formulations of perceptual grouping for signal representation.
  • Designed preliminary experiments converting speech signals into topology-based embeddings.

Presented related work at SPIRES 2024 in Oxford (Aug 2024): topology-enhanced machine learning for classifying voiced and voiceless consonants in speech signals.