Hanna Pamuła

Areas of expertise

• Bioacoustics

• Mechanical engineering

• Biomedical engineering

• Machine and deep learning models for image and audio processing

• Environmental science, ecology

Education

• AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, PolandPhD in Mechanical Engineering (Bioacoustics)

• AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, PolandMaster’s degree in Biomedical Engineering

• AGH University of Science and Technology, Cracow, PolandBachelor’s degree in Biomedical Engineering

Professional background and credentials

From an early age, Hania has always been interested in a wide array of subjects, making it difficult to settle on just one path. Her pursuit of knowledge led her to biomedical engineering, an interdisciplinary field that covers a diverse range of disciplines — from medicine and biology through physics, chemistry, and materials science to electronics, robotics, or programming. After the bachelor’s and master’s degrees, Hania continued her academic career in the field of mechanical engineering and bioacoustics. She earned her Ph.D. researching machine learning and deep learning models for the automatic detection and classification of bird calls from long-term recordings that can support nocturnal passerine bird migration research. The chosen degrees and then career in Omni perfectly aligned with her curiosity and desire to explore multiple areas of science. Hania is also dedicated to popularizing science and the results of scientific research. Her PhD work was featured in the Science in Poland portal, and she has participated in radio programs discussing her research. At Omni Calculator, she has created over 170 publicly accessible online calculators on a wide range of topics, with these related to ecology and environment being particularly popular. Those calculators have been widely shared and promoted by renowned media outlets such as National Geographic and The New York Times. For the past few years, Hania has been the Head of the Research and Content Department at Omni Calculator, leading the team of amazing Scientific Content Creators and Translators — also known as Calculatorians.

Achievements

Hania defended her Ph.D. thesis with distinction and presented her research at fifteen conferences, including six international ones. On top of that, she participated in two international scientific workshops and delivered two invited seminars. As a doctoral researcher, she contributed to the OPUS NCN grant, conducting experimental studies on the electrical and strength properties of piezoelectric components. Additionally, she has served as a reviewer for international journals and received several scholarships and university grants throughout her academic career. When it comes to international experience, Hania spent one semester in France at the Grenoble Institute of Technology as part of the Erasmus+ program, where she achieved an excellent result, placing in the top 5% of students in the biomedical engineering program. During her time at the university, Hania has participated in two international internships. The first, focused on the biomedical engineering field, took place at the National Institute of Health and Medical Research in Lyon, France, where she researched the role of shear forces in generating heat through ultrasound. A year later, she interned at Queen Mary University of London in the UK at the Machine Listening Laboratory, where she gained expertise in machine learning methods for detecting and recognizing bird sounds. This experience led to international collaborations, resulting in joint projects and publications with British scientists.

Awards

• Graduation with distinction for the Ph.D. in mechanical engineering, thesis title: “Novel methods for acoustic identification of birds migrating at night”

• Award in the AGH Diamonds competition (best theoretical master thesis at the Faculty in 2015); thesis entitled “Psychoacoustic evaluation of the annoyance of selected noise sources”, Dec 2015

• “Best Student Poster Award”, conference Biodiversity_Next, for the poster entitled “Towards the Acoustic Monitoring of Birds Migrating at Night”, Leiden 2019

• 2nd prize in the M. Kwiek contest for young scientists for the presentation “Application of deep learning methods for acoustic monitoring of birds migrating at night” presented at the conference LXIV Open Seminar in Acoustics OSA, 2017

• Award at the 2nd Conference of Achievements of Student Scientific Associations STUKNUT'16, for the presentation, “Preliminary research on the development of an acoustic monitoring system birds migrating at night”, Oct 2016

• 1st prize at the 3rd Conference of Achievements of Student Scientific Associations STUKNUT'17, for the presentation “Methods for the detection of bird voices from long-term recordings of nocturnal migration”, Oct 2017

• Award in the VI International Photo Contest “Matematyka w Obiektywie” (Maths through Lens), Dec 2015

Publications

• Így mérheti fel műanyaglábnyomát (How to measure your plastic footprint); National Geographic; Jun 2019

• One Thing You Can Do: Clean Greener. Also this week, a calculator to help gauge how much plastic you use; New York Times; May 2019

• Calculate Your Meat, Plastic Footprints with This Student’s Tools.; The University Network; Jan 2020

• This tool can tell you the true environmental impact of the meat you eat; Euro News; Feb 2020

• This Calculator Tells You If a 'Discount' Is Worth It; Lifehacker; Nov 2019

• Meat of the matter: New online tool that calculates how our eating habits impact the environment reveals that if everyone had the same diet as the US we'd need another PLANET; Daily Mail; Jun 2020

• https://www.iflscience.com/determine-your-plastic-footprint-with-this-online-calculator-52663; IFL Science; Jun 2019

• Meat footprint calculator; The Ecologist; Jan 2020

• How much plastic waste do you produce? Check with an online calculator; Science in Poland; May 2019

• Pay Gap calculator shows how much less women earn; Digital Journal; Mar 2019

• Animalista: nocne wędrówki ptaków, Radio RDC podcast with Hanna Pamuła about her PhD research; Sep 2017

• Podsłuchać nocne przeloty ptaków, Nauka w Polsce (Science in Poland); Apr 2017

• Akustyczne badania nocnej wędrówki ptaków - Akustyka w służbie ornitologii Radio Krakow, interview with Hanna Pamuła about her PhD research; Apr 2017

• Nolasco I, Singh S, Morfi V, Lostanlen V, Strandburg-Peshkin A, Vidaña-Vila E, Gill L, Pamuła H, Whitehead H, Kiskin I, Jensen FH, Morford J, Emmerson MG, Versace E, Grout E, Liu H, Ghani B, Stowell D. Learning to detect an animal sound from five examples; Ecological Informatics; Nov 2023

• Morfi V, Nolasco I, Lostanlen V, Singh S, Strandburg-Peshkin A, Gill L, Pamuła H, David Benvent D, Stowell D. Few-shot bioacoustic event detection: a new task at the DCASE 2021 challenge; Proceedings of the Detection and Classification of Acoustic Scenes and Events 2021 Workshop; Nov 2021

• Pamuła H, Pocha A, Klaczynski M. Deep Learning Methods for Acoustic Monitoring of Birds Migrating at Night; Proceedings of Forum Acusticum; Dec 2020

• Grzybek D, Kata D, Sikora W, Sapiński B, Micek P, Pamuła H, Huebner J, Rutkowski P. Piezoelectric particulate composite for energy harvesting from mechanical vibration; Materials; Nov 2020

• Morfi V, Bas Y, Pamuła H, Glotin H, Stowell D. NIPS4Bplus: a richly annotated birdsong audio dataset; Peer J Computer Science; Oct 2019

• Stowell D, Wood MD, Pamuła H, Stylianou Y, Glotin H. Automatic acoustic detection of birds through deep learning: the first Bird Audio Detection challenge; Methods in Ecology and Evolution; Oct 2018

• Pamuła H, Gawlik M, Fabczak AM, Wszołek W. Parametric Assessment of Esophageal Speech in Post-Laryngectomy Patients; Joint Conference-Acoustics, 2018; Sep 2018

• Pamuła H, Kłaczyński M, Remisiewicz M, Wszołek W, Stowell D. Adaptation of deep learning methods to nocturnal bird audio monitoring; Postępy akustyki 2017 / Advances in Acoustics, 2017; Jun 2017

• Pamuła H, Kłaczyński M, Wszołek W, Remisiewicz M. Monitoring akustyczny ptaków migrujących nocą – zagadnienia związane z automatyczną detekcją głosów; Ornis Polonica; Jun 2017

• Pamuła H, Kasprzak C, Kłaczyński M. Nuisance assessment of different annoying sounds based on psychoacoustic metrics and electroencephalography; Diagnostyka; Mar 2017

• Pamuła H, Kłaczyński M. Pomiary hałasu generowanego przez elektrownie wiatrowe i ocena ich wpływu na środowisko; Informatyka Automatyka Pomiary w Gospodarce i Ochronie Środowiska; Jun 2016