Biography

Nilesh Madhu is professor for audio, speech and signal processing at Ghent University, Belgium. He is passionate about signal processing and is especially interested in its applications in the fields of communications, healthcare and automation.
He was granted his Dr.-Ing. degree (summa cum laude) from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 2009. His dissertation was on algorithms for the localisation and separation of acoustic sources using microphone arrays. Following this he was awarded a Marie-Curie fellowship for a two-year postdoctoral stay at the KU Leuven, Belgium, where he gained expertise in the fields of hearing prostheses and biomedical signal analysis. During his industry tenure at NXP Semiconductors, Belgium, he held the positions of principal scientist and resident genius (unfortunately, not an official designation) within the product line Mobile Audio Solutions, where he and his team worked on developing beyond state-of-the-art algorithms for audio and speech enhancement in mobile devices. These algorithms have since been successfully deployed on several flagship models of major smartphone OEMs.
His group, established in 2018 within the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture, is now extending its technical repertoire and developing technologies around signal processing and machine learning, that can be of help to society.

Contact

Email: Nilesh.Madhu@UGent.be
Tel: +32 488 04 25 14