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Vesa Välimäki
Professor, Audio Signal Processing
Vice Dean, Research
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I am a Full Professor of audio signal processing and the Vice Dean for Research (electrical engineering) at Aalto University, Espoo, Finland. I am leading the Audio Signal Processing Research Group, which belongs to the Aalto Acoustics Lab. My duties include teaching of courses in audio signal processing and supervision of Master's and doctoral students and postdoctoral researchers, who are specializing in acoustics and audio technology. My research interests include headset and loudspeaker signal processing, machine learning for audio processing, audio effects processing, sound synthesis, equalizing filters, and reverberation algorithms. I am a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society and the IEEE. I was the General Chair of the Sound and Music Computing Conference SMC-17 and of the DAFx-08 conference. I am a Senior Area Editor of a top-tier journal of my field, the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. In 2020, I was a Guest Editor of the Digital Audio Effects DAFx special issue for the Applied Sciences journal.
The application period for Master's studies in Acoustics and Audio Technology at Aalto University is usually from the beginning of December until early January. All our courses are taught in English.
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- Aalto Acoustics Lab
- Headphone audio and augmented reality
- Virtual analog synthesis and audio effects
- Physical modeling of musical instruments and other sound source
- Musical instrument acoustics
- Digital filters for audio signals
- Research topics related to audio signal processing
Background
- Doctor of Science in Technology, acoustics and audio signal processing, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland, 1995
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Westminster, London, UK, 1996
- Professor of signal processing, Pori unit of Tampere University of Technology, Pori, Finland, 2001-2002
- Docent in signal processing, Tampere University of Technology, 2003-2014
- Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford, California, USA, 2008-2009
Background
- Tekniikan tohtori, akustiikka ja äänenkäsittelytekniikka, Teknillinen korkeakoulu, Espoo, 1995
- Tutkijatohtori, Westminsterin yliopisto, Lontoo, Iso-Britannia, 1996
- Signaalinkäsittelyn professori, Tampereen teknillisen yliopiston Porin yksikkö, 2001-2002
- Signaalinkäsittelyn dosentti, Tampereen teknillisen yliopiston Porin yksikkö, 2003-
- Vieraileva tutkija, Stanfordin yliopisto, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics, Stanford, Kalifornia, 2008-2009