AES Milan 2018 Presenter or Author
Vesa Välimäki
Primary Affiliation: Aalto University - Espoo, Finland
AES Member Type: Fellow
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Vesa Välimäki is a Full Professor of audio signal processing and the Vice Dean for research at the Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, Espoo, Finland. He received his MSc in Technology and Doctor of Science in Technology degrees, both in electrical engineering, from the Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. In 1996, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Westminster, London, UK. In 2008-2009, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA. He is the author or co-author of more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific journal articles and of more than 200 conference publications, and is responsible for four patents. Prof. Välimäki is a Fellow of the AES and a Fellow of the IEEE. He has served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2005-2009) and the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (2007-2011). He has been an Editorial Board Member of the Research Letters in Signal Processing (2007-2009), the Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (2010-2013), and The Scientific World Journal (2012–2016). Currently, he is a Senior Area Editor of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. He was the Lead Guest Editor of the special issue of the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing on “Model-Based Sound Synthesis” (2004), the special issue of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine on “Signal Processing for Sound Synthesis” (2007), and the special issue of the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing on “Virtual Analog Audio Effects and Musical Instruments” (2010). He was a Guest Editor of the special issue of the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing on “Musical applications of real-time signal processing” (2011) and the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine special issue on “Signal Processing Techniques for Assisted Listening” (2015). He was the sole Guest Editor of the Applied Sciences special issue on “Audio Signal Processing” (2015-2016) and was a Guest Editor of the Applied Sciences special issue on “Sound and Music Computing” (2017-2018). He is currently a Guest Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Magazine special issue on “Music Signal Processing”. He was the General Chair of the International Conference on Digital Audio Effects, DAFx-08, in 2008, and was the General Chair of the Sound and Music Computing Conference, SMC-17, in 2017.
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Session List
May 24:
W09: The State of the Art in Sound Synthesis and Procedural Audio (Panelist)
May 25:
P20: Audio Processing and Effects – Part 1
Effect of Delay Equalization on Loudspeaker Responses (Author)
May 25:
P22: Perception – Part 3
Audibility of Loudspeaker Group-Delay Characteristics (Author)