Hi, I'm Pol
I am a PhD candidate in computer science at the MPI and do some freelance stuff as a designer and a programmer. If you are interested in my work, just scroll down and have a look.
People can recognize emotions in speech extraordinarily well – even in absence of other cues like body posture or facial expressions.
During my PhD in computer science at the Max Planck Institute and HCM, I investigate this mapping between sound and emotion.
In corpus work, I investigate the mapping in existing recordings of emotional speech.
During experimental work, I iteratively change speech to make it sound emotional which allows to uncover mental prototypes of emotions in speech.
Academic work
Publications
Published
Harrison, P., Marjieh, R., Adolfi, F., van Rijn, P., Anglada-Tort, M., Tchernichovski, O., Larrouy-Maestri, P. & Jacoby, N. (2020). Gibbs Sampling with people, NeurIPS.
Under review
van Rijn, P., Mertes, S., Schiller, D., Harrison, P., Larrouy-Maestri, P., André, E., & Jacoby, N. Exploring emotional prototypes in a high dimensional TTS latent space, submitted to INTERSPEECH’21.
Schiller, D.*, Mertes, S.*, van Rijn, P. &, André, E. Analysis by Synthesis: Using an expressive TTS Model as Feature Extractor for Paralinguistic Speech Classification, submitted to INTERSPEECH’21.
van Rijn, P., Poeppel, D. & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (under review). Measures of Pitch over Time improve Classification in Emotional Speech, Speech Communication.
Presentations
Posters
van Rijn, P., Poeppel, D. & Larrouy-Maestri, P. (2019, December). Emotional prosody: the role of pitch over time. Poster presentation at the Rate and Rhythm in speech Recognition workshop. MPI for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, Netherlands.
van Rijn, P. & Vogelzang, M. (2019, May). Noun Capitalization: Can Dutch readers benefit from it? Poster presentation at TABU. University of Groningen, Groningen, Netherlands
Some background
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Finished gymnasium, 2013
VWO-diploma (Dutch Abitur examination)
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Moved to Germany, 2013
started studying German and Dutch language & literature studies
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Picked up computer science, 2016
inseparable from my computer ever since
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DAAD-Prize, 2016
for the outstanding achievement of a foreign student (€ 1,000)
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Deutschlandstipendium, 2017
Study grant € 3,600, one year
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Started my PhD, 2019
in computer science at the MPI
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A cool collaboration with you
Let's discuss some ideas
Design work
A tiny selection
Most recent writings
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Installing brms on a hpc: going through RHEL
It can be quite annoying to install software on a hpc without having admin rights. In this tutorial, I show how to install the statistical software brms using conda environments which does not require admin rights. -
PyCharm remote debugging with interactive SLURM
This brief article shows how to setup interactive debugging in interactive SLURM sessions. This is especially valuable if you are accessing special hardware like GPUs you can only access through SLURM.