Eva received her Bachelor of Engineering in 2003 from the University of Wollongong, specialising in Telecommunications. Aiming to pursue a career in research, during her undergraduate degree she worked in research positions with Nortel Networks, Canon Information Systems Research Australia (CISRA), Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), and University of Wollongong.

Eva's primary area of interest is in digital speech and audio signal processing: 3D audio recording and reproduction, microphone array design and processing, room acoustics modeling, psychoacoustics (especially in relation to spatial perception), and (real-time) audio synthesis techniques.

Her undergraduate honours thesis studied using physical modeling techniques to jointly synthesise the audio and visual deformations resulting from virtual object interactions. Applicable to animation industries and gaming, the research aims to enhance virtual environments by accurately modeling the physical phenomenon.

Commencing her PhD candidature in 2004, Eva's research topic investigates using spatial information and new microphone array recording techniques for segmenting and annotating meeting speech recordings in a semantically meaningful manner. The idea is to find a means to automatically annotate meeting audio but stepping away from the traditional techniques of purely using low-level audio features. Applications of this work would be in making large corpora of meeting audio easily accessible and searchable.

Supported by Nortel Networks for her undergraduate degree, Eva's postgraduate research is sponsored by both the University of Wollongong and the CSIRO ICT Centre.

Outside of academia...

Outside of academic research, Eva tutors and/or demonstrates labs for first through fourth (final) year and postgraduate engineering subjects including digital hardware, circuit theory, Internet technology, digital signal processing, speech and audio signal processing, and engineering ethics.

With a passion for all things musical and auditory, Eva spends a lot of time trying to play musical instruments and also explores and experiments with the importance of (spatial) sound in human experiences. Eva's interest in 3D audio recording and reproduction techniques has uncovered a curiosity about acoustic space, 'surround sound' contemporary compositions, and how composers and engineers view and treat the roles of acoustics, space, and their listeners. She also has an interest in investigating the role of auditory stimulus in human memory, and specifically, the effect of (immersive) spatial audio on memory recall of people, places, and experiences; Eva can often be found wandering around, particularly overseas, with a portable (surround) sound recorder in hand, ready to capture interesting sound events.

Auditory things aside, Eva also pursues interests in website design and computer programming, the outdoors (soccer, cycling, horse riding, and cricket), reading her way through the University's library, writing about everything under the sun for clarity of thought, and cooking/eating/travelling her way through the world's diverse cuisines.