CV

Education

• B.S. in GitHub, GitHub University, 2012
• M.S. in Jekyll, GitHub University, 2014
• Ph.D in Version Control Theory, GitHub University, 2018 (expected)

Work experience

• Summer 2015: Research Assistant
  • Github University
  • Duties included: Tagging issues
  • Supervisor: Professor Git
• Fall 2015: Research Assistant
  • Github University
  • Duties included: Merging pull requests
  • Supervisor: Professor Hub

Skills

• Skill 1
• Skill 2
  • Sub-skill 2.1
  • Sub-skill 2.2
  • Sub-skill 2.3
• Skill 3

Publications

DTAG studies of blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) in the Gulf of Corcovado

A Bocconcelli, L Hickmott, G Chiang, P Bahamonde, G Howes, R Landea-Briones, F Caruso, MR Saddler, L Sayigh (2016). "DTAG studies of blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) in the Gulf of Corcovado." Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics 27, 040002.

Characterizing Chilean blue whale vocalizations with DTAGs: a test of using tag accelerometers for caller identification

MR Saddler, A Bocconcelli, L Hickmott, G Chiang, R Landea-Briones, P Bahamonde, G Howes, P Segre, L Sayigh (2017). "Characterizing Chilean blue whale vocalizations with DTAGs: a test of using tag accelerometers for caller identification." Journal of Experimental Biology 220, 4119-4129.

Speech denoising with auditory models

MR Saddler, A Francl, J Feather, K Qian, Y Zhang, JH McDermott (2021). "Speech denoising with auditory models." Proc. Interspeech 2021, 2681-2685.

Deep neural network models reveal interplay of peripheral coding and stimulus statistics in pitch perception

MR Saddler, R Gonzalez, JH McDermott (2021). "Deep neural network models reveal interplay of peripheral coding and stimulus statistics in pitch perception." Nature Communications.

Models optimized for real-world tasks reveal the task-dependent necessity of precise temporal coding in hearing

MR Saddler, JH McDermott (2024). "Models optimized for real-world tasks reveal the task-dependent necessity of precise temporal coding in hearing." Nature Communications.

Towards individualized models of hearing-impaired speech perception

MR Saddler, T Dau, JH McDermott (2025). "Towards individualized models of hearing-impaired speech perception." Proc. ISCA Clarity-2025.

Talks

Teaching

Service and leadership

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