Jane Wang
Professor
Electrical and Computer Engineering Dept.
University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada
Jane Wang received the B.Sc. degree from Tsinghua University in 1996 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Connecticut (UConn) in 2000 and 2002, respectively, all in electrical engineering. While at UConn, she received the annual Outstanding Engineering Doctoral Student Award. She has been Research Associate at the University of Maryland, College Park from 2002 to 2004. Since Aug. 2004, she has been with the ECE dept. at the University of British Columbia (UBC), Canada, and she is currently Professor. She is an IEEE Fellow, a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering (FCAE) and a member of the College of New Scholars, Artists and Scientists of the Royal Society of Canada. Her research interests are in the broad areas of statistical signal processing and machine learning, with current focuses on digital media and biomedical data analytics. She co-received the EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing (JASP) Best Paper Award (2004), and the IEEE SPS Best Paper Award (2005). She has published 200+ journal papers and 140+ peer-reviewed conference papers. She has been Co-Founder for Cortic Tech., a Vancouver startup, focusing on developing AI Education products, and their team won the First Grand Prize in the OpenCV AI Competition 2021. Jane’s professional services mainly include the following: she has been Elected Member to several IEEE SPS TCs, including the Bio Imaging and Signal Processing TC, Multimedia SP TC, Machine Learning SP TC, and IFS TC (2015-2018), and served on the IEEE Fellow Committee; she has been key Organizing Committee Member for numerous IEEE conferences and workshops (e.g., the Co-Technical Chair for ChinaSIP2014, GlobalSIP2017, ICIP2021, and ICIP2025 and the Co-General Chair of MMSP2018, DSLW2021, and ICIP2026); and she has been Associate Editor for the IEEE TSP, SPL, TMM, TIFS, TBME, and SPM, and Area Editor of SPM, and as Editor-in-Chief for IEEE SPL.
Prof. Dr. ir. Emanuël Habets
International Audio Laboratories Erlangen
He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Hogeschool Limburg, The Netherlands, in 1999, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e), The Netherlands, in 2002 and 2007, respectively.
From March 2007 until February 2009, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology and at the Bar-Ilan University, Israel. In 2009, he was awarded a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development. From February 2009 until November 2010, he was a Member of the Research Staff in the Communication and Signal Processing Group at Imperial College London, United Kingdom. In November 2010, he joined the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen as a Professor for Perception-based Spatial Audio Signal Processing at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and Chief Scientist for Spatial Audio Processing at Fraunhofer IIS. Since 2013 he is also Head of the Spatial Audio Research Group at Fraunhofer IIS.
His research activities center around audio and acoustic signal processing, and include spatial audio signal processing, spatial sound recording and reproduction, speech enhancement (dereverberation, noise reduction, echo reduction), and sound localization and tracking.
Dr. Habets was a member of the organization committee of the 2005 International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC) in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, a general co-chair of the 2013 International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) in New Paltz, New York, and general co-chair of the 2014 International Conference on Spatial Audio (ICSA) in Erlangen, Germany. He was a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Standing Committee on Industry Digital Signal Processing Technology (2013-2015), a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing (2011-2016), Guest Editor of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing and the EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, an Associate Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2013-2017), and Editor in Chief of the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing (2016-2018). He was the founding vice-chair of the EURASIP Special Area Team on Acoustic, Sound and Music Signal Processing (2015-2018). He is the recipient, with S. Gannot and I. Cohen, of the 2014 IEEE Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the Audio Engineering Society, a member of the EAA Technical Committee on Audio Signal Processing (since 2017), and Chair of the EURASIP Special Area Team on Acoustic, Sound and Music Signal Processing (since 2019).