Prof. Dr. ir. Emanuël Habets
- Room: 3R4.05
- Phone: +49 9131 85 20503
- emanuel.habets@audiolabs-erlangen.de
Address:
International Audio Laboratories Erlangen
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Am Wolfsmantel 33
91058 Erlangen
Germany
Biography
He received the B.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the Hogeschool Limburg, The Netherlands, in 1999, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Technische Universiteit Eindhoven (TU/e), The Netherlands, in 2002 and 2007, respectively.
From March 2007 until February 2009, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology and at the Bar-Ilan University in Israel. In 2009, he was awarded a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship for Career Development. From February 2009 until November 2010, he was a Research Fellow in the Communication and Signal Processing Group at Imperial College London, United Kingdom. In November 2010, he joined the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen - a joint institute of Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) and Fraunhofer IIS. He is currently a Full Professor and Head of the Chair for Speech and Acoustic Signal Processing at the FAU, and Head of the Department for Speech and Audio Research at Fraunhofer IIS, Germany.
His research activities center on speech and acoustic signal processing, and include spatial audio signal processing, spatial sound recording and reproduction, speech enhancement (dereverberation, noise reduction, echo reduction), and sound localization and tracking.
Dr. Habets was a member of the organization committee of the 2005 International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC) in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, a general co-chair of the 2013 International Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA) in New Paltz, New York, and a general co-chair of the 2014 International Conference on Spatial Audio (ICSA) in Erlangen, Germany. He served on the IEEE Industry Digital Signal Processing Technology Standing Committee (2013–2015), as an Associate Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2013–2017), and as Editor-in-Chief of the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing (2016–2018). He is a founding member of the EURASIP Acoustic, Speech, and Music Signal Processing Technical Area Committee, serving as Vice-Chair from 2015 to 2018 and Chair from 2019 to 2021. With S. Gannot and I. Cohen, he received the 2014 IEEE Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award.
He currently serves on the Technical Program Committee of the 2025 IEEE Automatic Speech Recognition and Understanding Workshop (ASRU), on the IEEE Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing and IEEE Speech and Language Processing Technical Committees, and as a Senior Area Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, a member of the Audio Engineering Society, and a member of the EAA Technical Committee on Audio Signal Processing.