Woon-Seng Gan received his BEng (1st Class Hons) and PhD degrees, both in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, UK in 1989 and 1993 respectively. He is currently a Professor of Audio Engineering and Director of the Centre for Infocomm Technology in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Nanyang Technological University. He also served as the Head of the Information Engineering Division in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering in Nanyang Technological University from 2011-2014, and deputy director of the Centre for Signal Processing from 2007-2008. His research has been concerned with the connections between the physical world, signal processing and sound control, which resulted in the practical demonstration and licensing of spatial audio algorithms, directional sound beam, and active noise control for headphones.

He has published more than 300 international refereed journals and conferences, and has translated his research into 6 granted patents and has founded a company, Immersive Sound Technology Pte Ltd in 2015. He had co-authored three books on Subband Adaptive Filtering: Theory and Implementation (John Wiley, 2009); Embedded Signal Processing with the Micro Signal Architecture, (Wiley-IEEE, 2007); and Digital Signal Processors: Architectures, Implementations, and Applications (Prentice Hall, 2005).

He is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society(AES), a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology(IET), and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE/ACM Transaction on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP; 2012-15) and was presented with an Outstanding TASLP Editorial Board Service Award in 2016. He also served as the Associate Editor for the IEICE transaction (2014-2016) on Fundamentals of Electronics, Communications and Computer Sciences(Japan). He is currently serving as Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2015); Associate Technical Editor of the Journal of Audio Engineering Society (JAES; 2013-); Editorial member of the Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA; 2011-) Transaction on Signal and Information Processing; Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing (2007-).

He was elected as Board of Governor in 2014 and Vice President – Institutional Relations and Education Program in 2017 for the Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA). He also participates in the IEEE Signal Processing Industry DSP committee and IEEE IoT special interest group. He also served as member in the IEEE Signal Processing Design and Implementation of Signal Processing System from 2012-2015; IEEE Signal Processing Education Technical Committee from 2009-2015. Additionally, he is also the General Conference Chair of APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference in 2017.

• Present

  Director of INFINITUS, Centre for Infocomm Technology

  Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical Electronic Engineering

• Present

  Professor of Audio Engineering

  Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical Electronic Engineering

• 2014 2011

  Head of Information Engineering Division

  Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical Electronic Engineering

• 2011 2007

  Deputy Director, Centre for Signal Processing

  Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical Electronic Engineering

• 1999 1998

  Senior Lecturer

  Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical Electronic Engineering

• 1998 1993

  Lecturer

  Nanyang Technological University, School of Electrical Electronic Engineering