Dr Joshua D Reiss

Contact Details

Title: Lecturer
Tel: Internal: [13] 7982
National: 020 7882 7982
International: +44 20 7882 7982
Fax: National 020 7882 7997
International +44 20 7882 7997
Email: josh.reiss@elec.qmul.ac.uk
Office: Engineering, Room E305

Office hours: 3-4 Wednesday, 11-1 Friday

Research Group: Centre for Digital Music

• Head of Audio Engineering in the Centre for Digital Music
• Coordinator of the EU-IST funded EASAIER project.
• Co-Chair of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) Technical Committee on High-Resolution Audio
• Recipient of the AES Board of Governors Award, 2009
• General Secretary, 35th AES Conference and CHAOS09
• General Chair of the 31st AES Conference; New Directions in High Resolution Audio, 2007
• Programme Chair of ISMIR 2005
• Member of the Steering Committee for Galileo Advanced Concepts

Biography

Dr. Joshua D. Reiss (member IEEE, AES) was born in 1971, and is a Lecturer with the Centre for Digital Music and the Digital Signal Processing group in the Electronic Engineering department at Queen Mary, University of London . He has bachelor's degrees in both Physics and Mathematics, and received his PhD in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology, specializing in the analysis of chaotic time series. In June of 2000, he accepted a research position in the Audio Signal Processing research lab at King's College, London, and moved to Queen Mary in 2001. He made the transition from chaos theory to audio and musical signal processing through his work on sigma delta modulators, which has lead to a nomination for a best paper award from the IEEE, as well as a UK patent. He has also investigated proper use of audio formats in music retrieval systems, the evaluation of music information retrieval systems, applications of signal processing to analysis of non-western music, time series analysis of musical signals, digital audio effects and satellite navigation systems. His current primary focus of research, which ties together many of the above topics, is on the use of state-of-the-art signal processing techniques for professional sound engineering.

As coordinator of the EASAIER project, he leads an international consortium of seven partners working to improve access to sound archives in museums, libraries and cultural heritage institutions. He was on the Organising Committee of the Digital Audio Effects (DAFx) conference in 2003, the Steering Committee of Galileo Advanced Concepts (2005-7), and the Organising Committee of the 1st Annual Music Information Retrieval Evaluation eXchange (MIREX2005). Also in 2005, He was Programme Chair of the 6th International Conference on Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR), hosted by the Centre for Digital Music.

Dr. Reiss is very active in the Audio Engineering Society (AES), including being a member of the Review Board for the Journal of the AES, a member of the Technical Council, and vice-chair of the Technical Committee on High-resolution Audio. He was General Chair of the 2007 AES Conference on High Resolution Audio, the first international conference dedicated to that subject.