The Audio Analysis Lab is extremely pleased to announce that the Academic Council at the Faculty of Engineering and Science has decided to confer the title of adjunct professor to Jacob Benesty for a period of 5 years from January 1 2014. He will be part of our lab and will work closely with us to expand the research activities in noise reduction and microphone array signal processing.

Jacob Benesty received his M.Sc. from Pierre & Marie Curie University, Paris France in 1987 and his Ph.D. (summa cum laude) from Orsay University, Paris France in 1991. He is currently Professor at INRS-EMT, University of Quebec, QC, Montreal, Canada. Before joining INRS-EMT, he was Member of Technical Staff in the Acoustics Research Department at Bell Laboratories from 1995 to 2003. He has published no less than 18 books, 103 journal papers, 33 book chapters, 153 conference papers and is inventor of 14 granted patents, all on the topics of adaptive filtering, microphone array signal processing, and speech enhancement. Moreover, he has received several best paper awards, including two prestigious IEEE Signal Processing Society Best Paper Awards for his contributions. His high impact is evident from the very high number of citations his work has received. According to Google Scholar, he has an h-index of 44, an i10-index of 133 and a total of 8005 citations.