Jacob
BENESTY was born in 1963. He
received a
Master degree in microwaves
from Pierre & Marie Curie University, France, in 1987, and a
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 inventor of many important technologies. In
particular, he was the lead researcher at Bell Labs who conceived and
designed the world-first real-time hands-free full-duplex stereophonic teleconferencing
system. Also, he and Gaensler conceived and designed the
world-first
PC-based multi-party hands-free full-duplex stereo conferencing system over IP
networks.
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 Huang received the IEEE
Signal Processing
Society 2002 Young Author Best Paper Award.In 2010, he received the Gheorghe Cartianu Award
from the
Romanian Academy.In 2011, a paper that he co-auhtored
with Chen, received the Best Paper Award
from the IEEE
WASPAA. He has
co-authored and co-edited/co-authored
many books in the area of acoustic signal processing. He
is also the
editor-in-chief of the reference Springer
Handbook of Speech Processing (Berlin:
Springer-Verlag, 2007).
