About Me
Born and raised in Durbanville, South Africa, my early passion for mathematics, physics, and chemistry naturally guided me
toward engineering. I pursued my undergraduate studies at Stellenbosch University, where I joined the newly established
Data Engineering specialty of E&E, forming part of only the second class to ever take on the program. This unique focus blended
traditional Electrical and Electronic Engineering with Computer Science and Mathematical Statistics, giving me a rigorous
foundation in Machine Learning and Software Engineering. After many challenging but rewarding late nights, I graduated among
the top of my class.
Fascinated by the field of Machine Learning and driven by a desire to push the boundaries of the field, I transitioned into
academic research. Today, I am a Master's student under the supervision of Prof. Herman Kamper
within the Stellenbosch Engineering MIH MediaLab. Our research group specialises in unsupervised audio and speech processing.
My specific work centers on voice conversion - particularly one-to-fictional character generation. By analysing how speech is
represented and how these representations encode speaker identity, I develop simplistic techniques to manipulate a speaker's
characteristics. Ultimately, this research has exciting applications across the entertainment and gaming industries, as well as
in privacy, security, and voice anonymisation.