Diane J. Hu

9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0404
La Jolla, CA 92093

Objective

My research interests lie at the intersection of machine learning and audio/speech processing. I am committed to exploring auditory object recognition techniques with the aim of building elegant and cutting-edge systems that will benefit various communities of people.

Education

University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (2006 - 2007)
Ph.D. Student in Computer Science, 3.6/4.0
Advisor: Lawrence Saul

University of Washington, Seattle, WA (2002 - 2006)
B.S. in Computer Science, Minor in Music, 3.8/4.0, Cum Laude
Advisor: Linda Shapiro

Research

Research Assistant, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (1/2009 - Present)
We aim to discover meaningful harmonic structures in a corpus of classical music.

Research Assistant, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA (9/2006 - Present)
We introduce real-time software that helps beginning musicians practice sight-reading musical scores. The software displays an animated musical score, ``listens" to the player's instrument without digital pickups, and provides immediate visual feedback distinguishing correctly versus incorrectly played notes.

Research Assistant, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (6/2005 - 6/2006)
Designed and conducted experiments to test the effectiveness of different ensemble learning methods for detecting the presence of successful protein crystal growth in 2-dimensional images.

Teaching Assistant, University of Washington, Seattle, WA (3/2005 - 6/2005)
Advised students in an upper-level Computer Graphics course on four large-scale projects during weekly office hours and participated in oral and written grading of projects, and creating and grading homework, and exams.

Industry

Software Developer, Teranode Corporation, Seattle, WA (3/2006 - 9/2006)
Implemented, tested, and documented a new framework for the Teranode XDA Platform SDK in Java that allows users to load self-developed plug-ins into Teranode XDA software. Also worked with the Teranode consulting team to develop several plug-ins on top of Teranode Core for client Pfizer Inc.

Software Developer, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Richland, WA (6/2004 - 9/2004)
Independently developed software to construct potential protein-protein interaction maps from computational inferred protein domain information to predict the organization of Human Mammary Epithelial Cell networks.

Publications

Chih-Chieh Cheng, Diane J. Hu, Lawrence K. Saul. Nonnegative Matrix Factorization For Real Time Musical Analysis and Sight-Reading Evaluation. Submitted to ICASSP 2008.

Honors

National Science Foundation (NSF) Graduate Research Fellowship (2007 - 2010)
Google Anita Borg Memorial Scholarship Finalist (2007 - 2008)
UCSD Powell Foundation Junior Ph.D. Student Research Fellowship (2006 - 2007)
Mary Gates Endownment Undergraduate Research Grant (2004 - 2006)
Microsoft Scholarship (2004 - 2005)
Washington NASA Space Grant Scholarship (2002 - 2006)
University of Washington Undergraduate Scholarship (2002 - 2004)

Activities

Aspiring Photographer, http://www.flickr.com/dianejhu (2008 - Present)
Graphics Coordinator & Webdesigner, http://www.achievesandiego.com, Achieve Tutoring Program (2006 - Present)
Volunteer tutor for middle and high-school students, Achieve Tutoring Program (2006 - Present)
Officer and Webmaster, http://www.cs.washington.edu/acmw, UW Chapter of ACM-W (2004 - 2006)
Peer mentor for undergraduate women, UW CSE (2004 - 2006)
Gospel choir, piano ensemble, private piano lessons, UW School of Music (2002 - 2005)