Noah Weninger

About me

I'm currently studying towards an M.Sc. in theoretical computer science at UBC in Vancouver, BC, Canada. On the side I make open source software for digitally processing audio and generating algorithmic music under the alias byte.observer. I like to spend my free time cooking, hiking, rock climbing, cycling and snowboarding.

Links

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Email me for signal/whatsapp/telegram/socials

Research interests

• combinatorial optimization
• discrete math
• algorithmic music and sound synthesis
• computational complexity
• proof theory
• combinatorial game theory

Education

• M.Sc. in Computer Science at University of British Columbia. Funded by NSERC CGS-M. (2019-present)
• B.Sc. Honors in Computing Science at University of Alberta (2014-2019)

Papers

• 2018: Rendering Impulse Responses for Implicit Surfaces.
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• 2018: Training Deep Convolutional Networks with Unlimited Synthesis of Musical Examples for Multiple Instrument Recognition.
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  Rameel Sethi, Noah Weninger, Abram Hindle, Vadim Bulitko.
  15th Sound and Music Computing Conference.
  
  
• 2017: Exploring Positional Linear Go.
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  Noah Weninger and Ryan Hayward.
  15th International Conference on Advances in Computer Games.
  
  
• 2016: ScPy: A SuperCollider Extension for Perfoming Numerical Computation via Embedded Python.
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  Noah Weninger and Abram Hindle.

Presentations

• 03/2019: Festival for Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities (FURCA). Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  Topic: Training Deep Convolutional Networks with Unlimited Synthesis of Musical Examples for Multiple Instrument Recognition.
  
  
• 10/2018: Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) General Meeting. Albequerque, New Mexico.
  Topic: Training Deep Convolutional Networks with Unlimited Synthesis of Musical Examples for Multiple Instrument Recognition.
  
  
• 10/2017: Centre for Advanced Studies Conference (CASCON). Markham, Ontario, Canada.
  Topic: work done on OpenJ9 JIT-as-a-Service while interning at IBM.
  
  
• 06/2017: Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI), WALA Hackathon. Barcelona, Spain.
  Topic: static analysis of Swift programs.
  
  
• 07/2017: Advances in Computer Games (ACG). Leiden, The Netherlands.
  Topic: Exploring Positional Linear Go.

Participation

• 10/2019: attended the CRM/DIMACS Workshop on Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
• 09/2019: attended the West Coast Optimization Meeting in Vancouver, Canada.
• 08/2019: attended WADS, the Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
• 10/2018: attended the Society for Ethnomusicology (SEM) General Meeting in Albequerque, New Mexico, USA.
• 10/2018: competed in the Alberta Collegiate Programming Contest in Edmonton, Alberta. Got 2rd place!
• 11/2017: competed in the Rocky Mountain Regional ACM Programming Contest in Edmonton, Alberta. Got 3rd place!
• 10/2017: attended the Centre for Advanced Studies Conference (CASCON) in Markham, Ontario, Canada.
• 07/2017: attended Advances in Computer Games (ACG) in Leiden, The Netherlands.
• 06/2017: attended Programming Language Design and Implementation (PLDI) in Barcelona, Spain.
• 05/2017: competed in the ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC) World Finals in Rapid City, USA. Got honorable mention!
• 03/2017: competed in the University of Alberta Programming Contest in Edmonton, Alberta. Got 1st place!
• 11/2016: competed in the Rocky Mountain Regional ACM Programming Contest in Edmonton, Alberta. Got 1st place!
• 10/2016: competed in the Alberta Collegiate Programming Contest in Edmonton, Alberta. Got 3rd place!
• 07/2016: attended Advances in Computer Games (ACG) in Leiden, The Netherlands.
• 05/2014: competed in the Iverson Computing Science Exam in Edmonton, Alberta. Got 1st place!

Books I've read/am reading

• Introduction to Algorithms (Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein)
• Introduction to the Theory of Computation (Sipser)
• Computational Complexity (Arora and Barak)
• Competitive Programming 3 (Steven and Felix Halim)
• Combinatorial Problems and Exercises (Lovász)
• Combinatorial Optimization: Polyhedra and efficiency (Schrijver)
• A Course in Convexity (Barvinok)
• An Introduction to the Theory of Numbers (Niven)
• The Design of Approximation Algorithms (Williamson and Shmoys)
• Iterative Methods in Combinatorial Optimization (Lau, Ravi, Singh)
• Extremal Combnatorics (Jukna)
• generatingfunctionology (Wilf)
• A=B (Petkovsek, Wilf and Zeilberger)
• Hex: The Full Story (Hayward)
• Introduction to Ramsey theory: fast functions, infinity, and metamathematics (Katz and Reimann)
• Gödel, Escher, Bach (Hofstadter)
• Language, Proof and Logic (Barker-Plummer, Barwise, Etchemendy)
• Modal Logic: An Introduction (Chellas)
• Proof Theory: Sequent Calculi and Related Formalisms (Bimbo)
• Real sound synthesis for interactive applications (Cook)
• Designing sound (Farnell)
• More programming language manuals than I can count

If you know of a book you think I'd like, please let me know!