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Curriculum Vitae
| 2008- | Chair of the Technical Committee 'Audio and Electroacoustics' of the IEEE Signal Processing Society |
| 2002-2006 | Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Engineering Sciences |
| 1999- | Professor at the Chair for Multimedia Communications
and Signal
Processing (formerly LNT I) |
| 1999 | Cofounder of DSPSolutions |
| 1997-1998 | Managing director and project leader at the Institute for Applied Research of the Fachhochschule Regensburg |
| 1993-1999 | Professor at the Electrical Engineering department of the Fachhochschule Regensburg teaching courses on signals and systems, signal processing, and digital communications |
| 1990-1993 | Member of technical staff and project leader at the basic development department of Philips Kommunikations Industrie (PKI), Nuremberg |
| 1990 | Best thesis award for Dr.-Ing. thesis from the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt |
| 1989-1990 | Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff at the Center for Information Principles Research, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. Research on intelligent microphone arrays |
| 1988 | Dr.-Ing. degree ("Mit Auszeichnung"). Thesis on frequency-subband adaptive digital filters for use in hands-free communications |
| 1983-1988 | Research and teaching assistant at the Institut für Netzwerk- und Signaltheorie, Technical University Darmstadt |
| 1983 | Dipl.-Ing. (univ.) degree from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Electrical Engineering. Dipl.-Ing. thesis in speech coding |
Honors
- Fellow of the IEEE (Class of 2008)
- Distinguished
Lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society (2008 and 2009)
- Best PhD Thesis Award in Electrical Engineering, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, Germany, 1990
Some Professional Activities
Conference Organisation
- Co-Chair of International Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2008), Trento, Italy, 2008
- General Chair of IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, New Paltz, NY, USA, 2005
- General Chair of 5th International Workshop on Microphone Arrays, Schloss Weissenstein, Germany, 2003
- Member of Standing Committee for International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, since 1993
Editor
- Member of Overview Article Editorial Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2009-2011
- Book series 'Springer Topics in Signal Processing' (with J. Benesty, INRS Montreal), Springer, Heidelberg, 2007-
Associate Editor
- IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 2001-2005
- EURASIP Journal of Applied Signal Processing, 2004-2006
- EURASIP Journal on Signal Processing, 2005-2007
- EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, 2007-
Guest Editor
- Special Issue on Processing Reverberant Speech: Methodologies and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2010
- Special Issue on Digital Signal Processing for Hearing Instruments, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Hindawi Publishers, 2009
- Special Issue on Multi-channel Signal Processing for Audio and Acoustics Applications, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 2004
- Special Issue on Signal Processing for Acoustic Communication Systems, EURASIP Journal for Applied Signal Processing, Hindawi Publishers, 2003
- Special Issue on Recent Topics in Hands-free Acoustic Communication, Signal Processing, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2000
- Special issue Annales de Telecommunication, 1994
