Editors

About the Editor

Jacob Benesty received the Master’s degree in microwaves from Pierre & Marie Curie University, France, in 1987, and the Ph.D. degree in control and signal processing from Orsay University, France, in 1991. From January 1994 to July 1995, he worked at Telecom Paris University on multichannel adaptive filters and acoustic echo cancellation. From October 1995 to May 2003, he was first a Consultant and then a Member of the Technical Staff at Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA. In May 2003, he joined the University of Quebec, INRS-EMT, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, as a professor. His research interests are in signal processing, acoustic signal processing, and multimedia communications. Dr. Benesty received the 2001 Best Paper Award from the IEEE Signal Processing Society. He co-authored the books "Acoustic MIMO Signal Processing" (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006) and "Advances in Network and Acoustic Echo Cancellation" (Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001). He is also a co-editor/co-author of four other books.

Walter Kellermann received the Dipl.-Ing. (univ.) degree in electrical engineering from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany, in 1983, and the Dr.-Ing. degree from the Technical University Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany, in 1988. Since 1999, he has been a Professor in communications with the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. From 1989 to 1990, he was a Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff with AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA. In 1990, he joined Philips Kommunikations Industrie, Nuremberg, Germany, to work on hands-free communication in cars. From 1993 to 1999, he was a Professor with the Fachhochschule Regensburg, where he also became the Director of the Institute of Applied Research in 1997. In 1999 he joined the University Erlangen-Nuremberg as a Professor and Head of the Audio Research Laboratory. He authored or coauthored 21 book chapters, more than 300 refereed papers in journals and conference proceedings, as well as more than 70 patents, and he is a co-recipient of eleven Best Paper Awards. His service to the community includes several responsibilities in the IEEE Signal Processing Society, including Vice President Technical Directions (2016-2018).  He was awarded the Julius von Haast Fellowship by the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2012 and the Group Technical Achievement Award of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) in 2015. His current research interests include speech signal processing, array signal processing, adaptive filtering, and its applications to acoustic human–machine interfaces.