AES Member Profile

Panos Kudumakis

Job Title: Research Manager
Company: Centre for Digital Music, Queen Mary University of London

Status: Full Member
Member since: 1995
Section: British

Personal website: http://myprofile.cos.com/kudumakis

Audio Field:

International Standards (ISO/MPEG, DMP, etc) and Music Technologies

Job Duty:

Research Manager

About

Curriculum Vitae
Panos Kudumakis, PhD

Panos Kudumakis holds a PhD in Audio Signal Processing from King's College University of London (1996), an MSc in Music Technology from Keele University (1991) and a BSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering from National Technical University of Athens, Greece (1990).

Panos is currently Research Manager at the Centre for Digital Music at Queen's Mary University of London. During 2005-06 he acted as Strategy, Management and Research Consultant on Multimedia Information Systems and Digital Rights Management (DRM) to private companies (inAccess Networks, ATOS Origin Consulting) as well as the public sector (UK Hydrographic Office, The British Library). From 1998 to 2004 he was Senior Research Scientist and Projects Manager at EMI - Central Research Laboratories (CRL), London, UK, in charge of the Digital Rights Management (DRM) and Watermarking research teams. He actively involved in DRM standardisation efforts (OPIMA, SDMI, EBU/DVB, CEN/ISSS, ISO/MPEG, DMP, etc) and he is co-editor of the MPEG-4 IPMP Conformance & Reference Software Standards and co-author of the book "Simplifying the implementation of MPEG", published by ISO and BSI, respectively. From 1992 to 1998 he was Research Fellow at King's College University of London where he contacted research on Music Information Retrieval and Audio Compression.

He has worked on and managed more than a dozen of EC, BNSC and ESA funded projects and co-ordinated the IST/FP5/MOSES project on governed music super-distribution to mobile devices. He has published over 60 papers in the aforementioned research fields including contributions to International Standards and filled 3 patents. He has twice received the AES Award for his outstanding achievements in the field of Audio Engineering (1994 & 1995) and he has also served the EC as an evaluator for the IST/FP6 programme. He is member of AES, IEEE, BSI, ISO/MPEG, DMP and various Who's Who editions.

Address

Centre for Digital Music
Queen Mary University of London
Mile End Road
LONDON
E1 4NS
United Kingdom