Biography - Kellermann, Walter, Prof. Dr.-Ing. - Chair of Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing

Walter Kellermann – Curriculum Vitae

1999-	Professor at the Chair for Multimedia Communications and Signal Processing
1999	Cofounder of DSPSolutions
1997-1998	Managing director and project leader at the Institute for Applied Research of the Fachhochschule Regensburg
1993-1999	Professor for Communications at the Electrical Engineering department of the Fachhochschule Regensburg teaching courses on signals and systems, signal processing, and digital communications
1990-1993	Member of technical staff and project leader at the basic development department of Philips Kommunikations Industrie (PKI), Nuremberg
1989-1990	Postdoctoral Member of Technical Staff at the Center for Information Principles Research, Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ. Research on intelligent microphone arrays
1988	Dr.-Ing. degree (‘Mit Auszeichnung’). Thesis on frequency-subband adaptive digital filters for use in hands-free communications
1983-1988	Research and teaching assistant at the Institut für Netzwerk- und Signaltheorie, Technical University Darmstadt
1983	Dipl.-Ing. (univ.) degree from University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Electrical Engineering. Dipl.-Ing. thesis in speech coding

2016-2018	Vice President Technical Directions of IEEE Signal Processing Society
2013-2015	Member at Large of Board of Governors of IEEE Signal Processing Society
2011-2014	Member of the IEEE James L.Flanagan Award Committee
2008-2010	Member of Technical Directions Board of IEEE Signal Processing Society
2008-2010	Chair of the Technical Committee ‘Audio and Electroacoustics’ (from 2010 on ‘Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing’) of IEEE Signal Processing Society
2002-2006	Dean of Studies at the Faculty of Engineering Sciences

General Chair of 11th ITG Conference on Speech Communication 2014, Erlangen, Germany, 2014
Co-Chair of International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC 2012), Aachen, Germany, 2012
Co-Chair of International Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2011), Edinburgh, Scotland, 2011
Co-Chair of International Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA 2008), Trento, Italy, 2008
General Chair of IEEE International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics,New Paltz, NY, USA, 2005
General Chair of 5th International Workshop on Microphone Arrays, Schloss Weissenstein, Germany, 2003
Member of Standing Committee for International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control, since 1993

Member of Overview Article Editorial Board of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, 2009-2011
Book series ‘Springer Topics in Signal Processing’ (with J. Benesty, INRS Montreal), Springer, Heidelberg, 2007-

Special Issue on Advances in adaptive filtering theory and applications to acoustic and speech signal
processing, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Springer, 2016
Article Collection on ‘Silencing the echoes’ – Processing of Reverberant Speech, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Springer, 2015
Special Issue on Signal Processing for Assisted Listening, IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2014
Special Issue on Processing Reverberant Speech: Methodologies and Applications, IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing, 2010
Special Issue on Digital Signal Processing for Hearing Instruments, EURASIP Journal on Advances in Signal Processing, Hindawi Publishers, 2009
Special Issue on Multi-channel Signal Processing for Audio and Acoustics Applications, IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing, 2004
Special Issue on Signal Processing for Acoustic Communication Systems, EURASIP Journal for Applied Signal Processing, Hindawi Publishers, 2003
Special Issue on Recent Topics in Hands-free Acoustic Communication, Signal Processing, Elsevier, Amsterdam, 2000
Special issue Annales de Telecommunication, 1994