Luca Turchet, PhD, University of Trento, Italy
Luca Turchet is an Associate Professor at the Department of Information Engineering and Computer Science of University of Trento, where he leads the Creative, Intelligent and Multisensory Interactions Laboratory and is coordinator of the Research and Teaching Laboratory “Multisensory Interactions”. He received master degrees (summa cum laude) in Computer Science from University of Verona, in classical guitar and composition from Music Conservatory of Verona, and in electronic music from the Royal College of Music of Stockholm. He received the Ph.D. in Media Technology from Aalborg University Copenhagen. His scientific, artistic, and entrepreneurial research has been supported by numerous grants from different funding agencies including the European Commission, the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, the European Space Agency, Italian Minister of University and Research, the Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and the Danish Research Council. He is the Chair of the IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative on the Internet of Sounds, and the founding president of the Internet of Sounds Research Network. He is co-founder of the company Elk Audio AB, which operates in the sector of Music Technology. He serves as an associate editor for IEEE Access and the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, and he is co-editor of the book “Ubiquitous Music Ecologies”. He has served as a guest editor of special issues of IEEE Communications Magazine, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, Personal and Ubiquitous Computing Journal, Frontiers in Virtual Reality, and Digital Creativity. He is the founder and General Chair of the International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds, and is Steering Committee Member of the Audio Mostly International Conference. He is board member of the Italian section of the Audio Engineering Society. He is the coordinator of the European Project MUSMET funded by the European Commission.
Nils Peters, PhD, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Nils Peters is an Assistant Professor for acoustics and signal processing at Trinity College Dublin. He was an Associate Professor at the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen, at the Faculty of Engineering of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, and a 3D Audio research lead at Qualcomm’s Multimedia R&D department in San Diego, USA. He holds a PhD in Music Technology from McGill University, Montreal, and a MSc. degree in Electrical and Audio Engineering from Graz University of Technology, Austria. He serves as the Co-Chair of the Technical Committee for Spatial Audio of the Audio Engineering Society, and as is a steering board member of the IEEE Emerging Technology Initiative on the Internet of Sounds.
Toon van Waterschoot, PhD, Audio Engineering Lab, KU Leuven, Belgium
Toon van Waterschoot received the MSc (2001) and PhD (2009) degrees in Electrical Engineering, both from KU Leuven, Belgium, where he is currently Professor and Campus Chair of the Group T Leuven - De Nayer Campus. His research interests are in signal processing, machine learning, and optimization, applied to acoustic signal enhancement, acoustic modeling, audio analysis, and audio reproduction. He has been the Scientific Coordinator of the FP7-PEOPLE Marie Curie Initial Training Network "Dereverberation and Reverberation of Audio, Music, and Speech (DREAMS)" and the PI of the H2020 ERC Consolidator Grant "The Spatial Dynamics of Room Acoustics (SONORA)", and is currently the Scientific Coordinator of the H2020 MSCA European Training Network "Service-Oriented, Ubiquitous, Network-Driven Sound (SOUNDS)", funded by the European Commission. He has been serving as an Associate Editor for the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) and for the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Music, and Speech Processing. He is a Member of the Board of Directors of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP), Member of the EURASIP Technical Area Committee on Acoustic, Speech and Music Signal Processing, Founding Member of the European Acoustics Association (EAA) Technical Committee in Audio Signal Processing, and was previously a Member of the IEEE Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee (AASP-TC). He was the General Chair of the 60th AES International Conference in Leuven, Belgium (2016), and has been serving on the Organizing Committee of the European Conference on Computational Optimization (EUCCO 2016), the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA 2017), the European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2020, 2021), and the International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC 2024). He is a member of EURASIP, IEEE, ASA, and AES.
Tuomas Virtanen, PhD, Tampere University, Finland
Tuomas Virtanen is Professor at Tampere University, Finland, where he is leading the Audio Research Group. He received the M.Sc. and Doctor of Science degrees in information technology from Tampere University of Technology in 2001 and 2006, respectively. He has also been working as a research associate at Cambridge University Engineering Department, UK. He is known for his pioneering work on computational acoustic scene analysis and sound source separation. His research interests include machine listening, computational content analysis of audio, and machine learning for audio. He has authored more than 200 scientific publications on the above topics, which have been cited more than 20000 times. He has received IEEE Signal Processing Society best paper awards multiple times, as well as many other best paper awards. He is an IEEE Fellow, IEEE Signal Processing Society Distinguished Lecturer 2024-2025, recipient of the ERC 2014 Starting Grant, and has been a member of the Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee of IEEE Signal Processing Society.
