My full name is Burak Sina Akbudak, though I prefer to be called just Sina. I’m a passionate Music Information Retrieval (MIR) researcher (or at least I want to be!). I speak Turkish native and English at professional level. I’m currently a student at Bogazici University, Computer Engineering Department.
My interests can be categorized as follows:
Music
- Classical, jazz and math rock music composition
- Music theory and using this theory knowledge on playing classical, electrical, bass guitars and drums
- Digital Audio Workstations (DAWs) and signal processing
Coding
- Music modeling using natural language modeling techniques
- Music information retrieval (MIR), namely the fields of synthetic music generation, singing voice synthesis, text-to-speech
- Physical simulations using C/C++ (although I still have a lot to learn!)
Digital Art
- 3D environment design
- Character and hard surface modeling
- Shader art coding and openGL
- Pixel art
Other
- Mathematical olympiads and contests
- Game industry and game development
- 3D printers and printing
In this blog, I write about my projects, researchs, some thoughts and guides about specific stuff such as problems I’ve faced during my works or guide to project competitions. I also share my personal travel notes.
Have a beautiful day!