Meet Umberto Zanghieri one of our honorable judges of the Student Design Competition at AES138 in Warsaw.
Umberto Zanghieri began his involvement in audio by servicing Hammond and Yamaha organs and other keyboard brands. Since 1991 he worked at the Research Centre of Bontempi-Farfisa group, focusing on DSP development for audio and musical applications. He obtained an Msc degree in Electronics Engineering in 1994 with a work on pitch detection algorithms for stringed instruments. After a few years of consulting for STMicroelectronics on custom DSP design projects, in 1999 Umberto cofounded ZP Engineering, a design house devoted to hardware, embedded and DSP projects for audio and industrial applications. He has been involved in various roles within AES, as president of the Italian Section, VP for South Europe, Chair of TC-NAS and several audio networks related workshops, and co-Chair at a few european AES Conventions (Rome in 2013, Berlin in 2014, Warsaw in 2015). Since 2014, ZP is part of RCF Group, and Umberto now manages the development of new digital audio products for RCF.
In his career, he has been working in the fields of 3D spatial audio, digital audio networks, digital audio and voice signal processing, audio effects, embedded system design, musical instrument design, audio watermarking, product definition and development.
Posted: Friday, May 1, 2015
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