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access to individuals who are well known educators and authors in the fields of sig- nal processing, to lecture at Chapter meetings. His lecture topic is “Signal Processing for Acoustic Communication”. Walter Kellermann is a Professor, Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing at the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg, Germany. He received the Dipl.-Ing. (univ.) degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in 1983, and the Dr.-Ing. degree from the Technical University Darmstadt, Germany, in 1988. From 1989 to 1990, he was a Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. In 1990, he joined Philips Kommunikations Industrie, Nuremberg, Germany.
From 1993 to 1999, he was a Professor, Fachhochschule Regensburg, where he also became Director, Institute of Applied Research in 1997. In 1999, he co-founded DSP Solutions, a consulting firm in digital signal pro- cessing, and joined the University Erlangen-Nuremberg as a Professor and Head, Audio Research Laboratory. From 2002 to 2006, he was a Dean of Studies, Faculty of Engineering, University Erlangen-Nuremberg, over- seeing organization and quality assur- ance of more than 500 courses per semester. He is also continuously con- sulting to industry in his technical field, and he acts as a consultant to gov- ernmental institutions on the national and European level regarding research and university politics.
Professor Kellermann has
authored or co-authored eight book chapters and more than 100 refereed papers in journals and conference pro- ceedings. He has served as a guest edi- tor for various journals, as Associate Editor (and guest editor), IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing (2000-2004), and presently serves as Associate Editor, EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing and EURASIP Journal on Signal Processing. He was the General Chair, International Workshop on Microphone Arrays (2003) and the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (2005). His current research interests include speech signal process- ing, array signal processing, adaptive filtering, and its applications to acoustic human/machine interfaces.
International Commission
for Acoustics admitted to International Council for Science
The International Council for Science (ICSU), having received the requisite support letters and no objec- tions, has now formally admitted the International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) as a Scientific Associate. ICSU is a nongovernmental and provides a forum for discussions of international science as it may be relat- ed to policy issues. The President of ICSU is Goverdhan Mehta (India) who succeeded Jan Lubchenco (USA). The secretariat of ICSU is in Paris and the next meeting of the Council will be held in 2008 in Mozambique.
The International Commission for Acoustics (ICA) is an organization in which the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) has been actively involved. Lawrence Crum, a past presi- dent of ASA and Gilles Daigle, the cur- rent President-Elect of ASA, are Past Presidents of ICA and Charles Schmid, ASA Executive Director, is now serving on the board of the Commission.
Information about ICSU can be found at www.icsu.org and informa- tion about ICA can be found at www.icacommission.org.
Nico Declercq
ities at Georgia Tech's Satellite campus (GT-Lorraine) in Metz, France. Prior to his appointment, he was a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Belgian National Science Foundation at Ghent University.
Nico Declercq received B.Sc. and M.Sc degrees in 1996 and 2000 from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Ph.D. at Ghent University in 2005. His main research interests are in the field of the ultrasonic nondestructive evaluation of materials. His research also includes more exotic topics such as acoustic and ultrasonic diffraction effects on corrugated surfaces and on pyramids (Chichen Itza, Mexico) and ancient theaters (Epidaurus-Greece).
Dr. Declercq is a member of the Acoustical Society of America. He has received the International Dennis Gabor Award of the NOVOFER Foundation for Technical and Intellectual Creation (Hungary) in 2006 and served as a Guest Editor of Ultrasonics in 2005. He was the recipi- ent of the ASA's best student paper award in physical acoustics in 2002.
Walter Kellermann selected to serve at IEEE Signal Processing Society 2007 Distinguished Lecturer
Professor Walter Kellermann has been selected to serve as one of five dis- tinguished lecturers of the Signal Processing Society of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The IEEE’s
Distinguished Lecturer Program provides means for chapters to have
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