Jacob
BENESTY was born in 1963. He
received the
Master 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 April 1991.
During his Ph.D. (from
Nov.
1989 to Apr. 1991), he worked on adaptive filters and fast algorithms
at the Centre National d'Etudes des Telecomunications (CNET), Paris,
France.
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.
He is the editor of the book series: Springer Topics in Signal
Processing. He was the co-chair of the 1999
International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control and the
general co-chair of the 2009 IEEE Workshop on Applications of
Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics. He was a
member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on
Audio
and Electroacoustics and a member of the editorial board of the
EURASIP Journal on Applied Signal Processing. He is the recipient, with
Morgan and Sondhi, of the
IEEE
Signal
Processing Society 2001 Best Paper Award. He
is the recipient, with Chen,
Huang, and Doclo, of the
IEEE Signal
Processing Society 2008 Best Paper Award. He is also the
co-author of a paper for which Y. Huang received the IEEE
Signal Processing
Society 2002 Young Author Best Paper Award. He co-authored
the
books Sparse
Adaptive Filters for Echo Cancellation (CO: Morgan &
Claypool, 2010), Noise
Reduction in Speech Processing (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2009), Microphone
Array Signal Processing (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2008), Acoustic MIMO
Signal Processing
(Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2006), and Advances in Network and Acoustic
Echo Cancellation
(Berlin:
Springer-Verlag, 2001). He is the editor-in-chief of the unique
reference Springer
Handbook of Speech Processing (Berlin:
Springer-Verlag, 2007). He is also a co-editor/co-author of the books Speech
Processing in Modern Communication--Challenges and Perspectives
(Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2010), Speech
Enhancement (Berlin:
Springer-Verlag, 2005), Audio
Signal Processing for Next-Generation Multimedia Communication Systems
(Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004), Adaptive Signal
Processing--Applications to Real-World
Problems
(Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 2003), and Acoustic
Signal Processing for Telecommunication (Boston: Kluwer Academic
Publishers,
2000).
