GAN Woon Seng
Associate Professor of School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Division of Information Engineering
Deputy Director, Centre for Signal Processing

Phone: 6790 4538, Fax: 6792 0415
Office: S2-B2b-68 
Email: ewsgan@ntu.edu.sg
Personal WebSite: http://www.ntu.edu.sg/home/ewsgan

Biography

Woon-Seng Gan (S ’90, M ’93, SM ’00) received his B.Eng (1st Class Hons) and PhD degrees, both in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, UK in 1989 and 1993 respectively. He joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in 1993 and 1998 respectively. Currently, he is an Associate Professor. He teaches several undergraduate, postgraduate and industry courses on Digital Signal Processing and Real-Time Signal Processing Implementation. His research interests include adaptive signal processing, psycho-acoustical signal processing and real-time digital signal processing. He has published over 120 International refereed journals and conferences. He led two teams of undergraduates to top the Asia/Japan Territory in the 1997/98 and semi-finalist of the 00/01 Texas Instruments World Wide DSP and Analog Solutions Challenge respectively. He has also won the Institute of Engineer Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2001 for the project on Audio Beam.

He was the Deputy Director of the National Centre for Signal Processing at Nanyang Technological University till June 2001. He was also the co-chairman of the Task Force for the DAB Steering Committee, Singapore (2001) and was a committee member (1999-2001) for the Audio Engineering Society, Singapore. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a Member of Audio Engineering Society and a Professional Engineers of Singapore. He is also listed in the Philips “Faculty 300” Centre for Technical Training International Training Guide. His biographical profile is also included in the 2003-04 Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering. He has recently co-authored a book on “Digital Signal Processors: Architectures, Implementations, and Applications”, Prentice Hall 2005. This book has since been translated to Chinese for adoption by universities in China.


Research Interest

Digital Media Processing
Real-Time Embedded Processing
Psycho-acoustic Signal Processing
Parametric Array for Directional Audio
Advanced Signal Processing


Selected Research Projects

  • Audio Beam Loudspeakers
  • Scalable Perceptual Image Coder
  • Virtual Bass Enhancement


Selected Publications

  • W.S.Gan, J Yang, K S Tan, M H Er, “A Digital Beamsteerer for Difference Frequency in Parametric Array”, Accepted for publication in the IEEE Transaction on Speech and Audio Processing, To appear in 2006.
  • J Yang, K Sha, W.S. Gan, J Tian, “Modeling of Finite-amplitude Sound Beams: Second Order Fields Generated by a Parametric loudspeaker”, IEEE Transaction on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, Vol 52, No. 4, April 2005, pp 610-618.
  • W.S.Gan , Sen M Kuo, “Teaching DSP Software Development:From Design to Fixed-Point Implementations”, IEEE Transaction on Education, Vol 49, Issue 1,pp 122-131, Feb 2005.
  • W. S. Gan , Sohini Mitra and Sen M. Kuo “Adaptive Feedback Active Noise Control Headset:Implementation, Evaluation and Its Extensions”, IEEE Transaction on Consumer Electronics, August 2005, Vol 51, No 3, pp 975-982.
  • Kelvin Lee, W.S.Gan, “ Bandwidth-Efficient Recursive pth order Equalization for Correcting Baseband Distortion in Parametric Loudspeakers”, Accepted for publication in the IEEE Transaction on Speech and Audio Processing, Volume 14,  Issue 2,  March 2006 Page(s):706 – 710.