Prof. Vesa Välimäki

Vesa Välimäki is a Full Professor of audio signal processing at Aalto University in Espoo, Finland. He is also the Vice Dean for research at the Aalto School of Electrical Engineering. He received his Master of Science in Technology and Doctor of Science in Technology degrees, both in electrical engineering, from the Helsinki University of Technology, Finland, in 1992 and 1995, respectively. His doctoral thesis dealt with fractional delay filters and sound synthesis. In 1996, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Westminster, London, UK. In 2008-2009, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford University, CA, USA. 

Professor Välimäki’s research interests have included various topics in acoustics, audio technology, digital signal processing, machine learning, and music technology. Professor Välimäki has co-authored 375 peer-reviewed scientific papers. He has collaborated in research with several companies, for example Genelec, Nokia Technologies, Huawei, AAC Technologies, and VLSI Solution. He has discovered sound synthesis techniques used widely in industry, such as the polynomial BLEP algorithm (polyBLEP). He has also developed novel accurate graphic equalizer designs for audio processing. In recent years, he has contributed strongly to the development of deep-learning methods for modeling analog audio electronics and for audio enhancement. 

Professor Välimäki is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Audio Engineering Society (AES), and Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association (AAIA). He has organized two international conferences: in 2008, he was the General Chair of the 11th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects DAFx-08, and in 2017, he was the General Chair of the 14th International Sound and Music Computing Conference SMC-17. In 2015-2020, he was a Senior Area Editor of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing. Currently, he is the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society.