We are happy to announce that Richard Heusdens from Delft University of Technology is now Guest Professor at Aalborg University and will be visiting us a number of times. He will work with us on distributed signal processing for ad hoc camera and microphone networks and will be giving a Ph.D. course on distributed signal processing. The professorship is kindly sponsored by the VELUX Visiting Professor Programme 2015-2016.

Richard Heusdens is an Associate Professor at the Department of Mediamatics of the Delft University of Technology. He received his HTS (institute of technology) diploma from the HTS Alkmaar in 1988. He received the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands, in 1992 and 1997, respectively. Since 2002, he has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Mediamatics, Delft University of Technology. In the spring of 1992, he joined the digital signal processing group at the Philips Research Laboratories, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. He has worked on various topics in the field of signal processing, such as image/video compression and VLSI architectures for image processing algorithms. In 1997, he joined the Circuits and Systems Group of Delft University of Technology, where he was a Postdoctoral Researcher. In 2000, he moved to the Information and Communication Theory (ICT) Group, where he became an Assistant Professor responsible for the audio and speech processing activities within the ICT group. He is involved in research projects that cover subjects such as audio and speech coding, speech enhancement, and digital watermarking of audio. Research projects he is involved in cover subjects such as audio and speech coding (Sicas, ARDOR, ASC), speech enhancement (SpEnt), and digital watermarking of audio (DIWAMETRICS)