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Jacob Sanz-Robinson: Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada. Colegio Anglo Colombiano, Bogota, Colombia

Jacob Sanz-Robinson is a Canadian citizen studying Computer Science and Musical Science and Technology at McGill University. He has worked as a speech science intern developing machine learning tools for voice biometrics and automatic redaction. His research includes developing a system to convert Gregorian chant recordings to MIDI format and creating an automatic lip sync system using neural networks. He has strong technical skills in programming languages like Python and technical interests in machine learning, digital audio, and signal processing.

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Jacob Sanz-Robinson: Mcgill University, Montreal, Canada. Colegio Anglo Colombiano, Bogota, Colombia

Jacob Sanz-Robinson is a Canadian citizen studying Computer Science and Musical Science and Technology at McGill University. He has worked as a speech science intern developing machine learning tools for voice biometrics and automatic redaction. His research includes developing a system to convert Gregorian chant recordings to MIDI format and creating an automatic lip sync system using neural networks. He has strong technical skills in programming languages like Python and technical interests in machine learning, digital audio, and signal processing.

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Jacob Sanz-Robinson

[email protected] · +1-514-560-5284 · Canadian citizen · linkedin.com/in/jacobsanz


Education
Bachelor of Science: Honours Computer Science
Minor in Musical Science and Technology
McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Sep. 2016 - May 2020 (expected)
International Baccalaureate (42/45 points).
Colegio Anglo Colombiano, Bogota, Colombia. Aug. 2014 - May 2016
Work Experience
Speech Science intern at Nuance (Montreal, Canada) May 2019 – Sep. 2019
• Voice Biometrics Team: Modularized and streamlined an ensemble of machine learning tools used for analysis
and experimentation on speech recordings with the objective of identifying a person using their voice.
• Transcription Engine Team: Automatic redaction tool used to detect and remove confidential and sensitive
information from transcriptions, logs, and audio files of calls.
Research Experience
Undergraduate researcher in Prof. Ichiro Fujinaga’s DDMAL lab at McGill University. Sep. 2019 – Dec. 2019
• Developed a system for dynamically loading data from University of Waterloo’s Gregorian Chant
Cantus Database and converting it to the MIDI format, using JavaScript.
• Synthesized realistic Gregorian Monk Chants and played the resulting audio on a website using Django
and Backbone Marionette.
Undergraduate researcher in Prof. Joseph Vybihal's lab at McGill University. May 2018 – Sep. 2018
• Created an Automatic Lip Sync system using Neural Network classification to generate unique
mouth shapes based on speech type.
• Constructed a Dataset using audio recordings from 50 individuals from scratch.
• Used the CMU Sphinx speech recognition package along with Librosa, Keras, and Tensorflow
for Python to create a pipeline which outputs mouth shapes to match a speech excerpt.
• Lightweight objects store the mouth shapes, and use B-splines to reconstruct the display.
Sanz-Robinson, Jacob, and Joseph Vybihal. “An Automatic Lip Sync System Using Neural Network Classification to
Generate Unique Mouth Shapes Based on Speech Type.” IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, (Submitted Aug. 2019)
Relevant Projects
• CNN for sentiment analysis on song lyrics using GloVe word embeddings. Achieved 90% Nov. 2019
accuracy on the multiclass MoodyLyrics dataset, surpassing the literature benchmark.
• Computer Vision processing and CNN modelling to find the largest digit in an image. Mar. 2019
• Digital audio sampler and modular effects processor (Arduino, C++, MAX/MSP) Dec. 2018
(look at it in action here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e39g5t8MrM&t)
• A maze-solving Genetic Algorithm in Python. Apr. 2016
Technical Skills
•Java, Python, C, C++, Bash, OCaml, Assembly (MIPS), MATLAB, JavaScript, Unix, Git, Django, Backbone.
•Coursework: Data Structures, Algorithms, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra, OOP, Calculus, Software and
Computer Systems, Functional programming, Software Design, Digital Audio, Machine Learning, Artificial
Intelligence, Computational Perception, OS, Theory of Computation, Numerical Computation, Probability,
Statistics, Computer Vision, NLP.
Selected Awards
• McGill J W McConnell Scholarship (top 5% of entering class) 2016
• AACBI IB schools award (Best IB score of the Andean countries) 2016
• Colegio Anglo Colombiano Best Graduate (7.00/7.00 GPA), Prefect, Vice Headboy 2016
Languages: English and Spanish (both native fluency).
Interests
• Playing guitar, composing and recording music (youtube.com/user/jacobsanz).
• Judo (brown belt) 2014 Colombian departmental champion, and running.
• Machine Learning, Digital Audio, and Signal Processing.

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