The Integrated Science Lab invites you to join the conversation at a Lunch Pitch. Amin Saremi will pitch about computational modeling of the human auditory system, Anna Strandberg wants to connect with data scientists to talk about multidimensional data analysis and Katharina Wulff wants to discuss her 'photon' space and the data challenges therein with researchers in applied physics and electronics.
To encourage cross pollination of ideas between researchers from different disciplines, IceLab hosts interdisciplinary research lunches with the vision of allowing ideas to meet and mate. During the Lunch Pitch Season, the creative lunches take place at KBC (Glasburen) on a Wednesday.
Register to come to the pitch and reserve your lunch by Monday, 9 March at 10am.
IceLab Lunch Pitch registration will open two weeks before the event.
Note! The default lunch option is a vegan falafel wrap. You can choose an alternative lunch in a separate form that will be emailed to you once you have registered.
Computational modelling of the human auditory system
Human auditory system is an astonishing electromechanical system that substantially amplifies the incoming sound waves and also breaks them down into different frequency bands. Various pathologies can affect this delicate electromechanical system leading to reduced hearing ability, deficits in speech perception, and problems with spatial and environmental awareness.
Most of our research focuses on computationally modelling different stages of the human auditory system (from cochlea to the auditoey nerve and beyond) and study the effects of specific pathologies on the sound perception and speech understanding. This research has biomedical applications (such as in hearing aid and cochlear implant industries) as well as implications in machine learning (speech recognition) and audio signal processing.
Interested in: electromechanical systems, computational modelling, auditory modeling, cochlear mechanics, audio/speech signal processing, and speech recognition.
Multidimensional data analysis – combining 3D µCT and diffraction data
The overall purpose of the project is to enable analysis of crystalline composition combined with attenuation in complex samples in 3D, to detect which phosphates are in the sample and where they are located and relate that with physical properties. Phosphate distribution in 3D, in combination with physical properties such as morphology, pore structure, and surface area, will increase the knowledge of phosphorus (P) availability of ash and biochar from nutrient rich residual streams e.g. sewage sludge. This is of great importance when assessing the potential for nutrient recycling and the ability of plants to absorb P, due to the different plant availability of different phosphates and the limited mobility.
By combining diffraction and attenuation data, we seek to identify and localize crystalline phases. However, large dataset and artefacts in the data makes in challenging.
Interested in: Discussion and collaboration with people within data science.
Living Lab - Synchronisation processes to natural rhythms
Today, the word ‘time’ almost always refers to man-made clock time. We impose calendars and clocks upon us, albeit they are only a fraction of our body’s temporal interplay. The passing of time is a natural process, a continuous flow, not managed by the human species. Having worked with designers and architects, we developed a living lab, the ‘photon space’, where we collect recurring temporal signals in the daylight spectrum to understand how they act upon human sensory systems and bodily functions.
We focus on combining time series data from spectroradiometry with eye- and pupil tracking, and physical- and brain activity monitoring to study the interface of natural time and body time using daylight changes as a tool. However, different recording systems use different time stamps which makes temporal coherence between the data hard for us to achieve.
Interested in: Discussing possible collaboration with applied physics, electronics, photonics…
KBC Glasburen, near the KBC café. Find your way to the venue (mazemap link)
IceLab Lunch Pitches are made possible through funding from KBC for the venue and from Stress Response Modeling at IceLab for their coordination and lunches.
