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Biographies |
Hans Gierlich,
Head Acoustics GmbH
H. W. Gierlich started his professional career in 1983 at the Institute for Communication Engineering at RWTH,
Aachen. In 1988 February he received a Ph.D. in electrical engineering. In 1989 he joined HEAD acoustics Inc.
in Aachen as vice president. Since 1999 he is head of the HEAD acoustics telecom division. Hans is mainly
involved in acoustics, speech signal processing and its perceptual effects, measurement technology and speech
transmission quality. He is active in ITU-T, ETSI, 3GPP, GCF, IEEE, TIA, CTIA, DKE and VDA and vice chair of
the ETSI technical committee STQ and chair of the ITU-T focus group CarCom. He is author of more than 150
scientific papers and holds five patents. Hans is member of ASA, IEEE, VDE and DEGA, where he was chair of
the "Speech Communication" committee from 2003 until March 2009. |
Dominic Ho, Rapporteur Q15/16
Dominic Ho has been actively participating ITU-T for standard recommendation development for over 15 years. He is the Rapporteur of Q15/16, the Editor of ITU-T Rec. G.168 and ITU-T Rec. G.160, and the past Editor of ITU-T Rec. G.799.2. He is an inventor of three U.S. patents, three Canadian patents, two patents in Europe and four patents in Asia on telecommunications and signal processing. He is currently with Ericsson. |
Scott Pennock, QNX
Software Systems (Wavemakers)
Inc.
Scott Pennock worked at
AT&T/Lucent Bell Labs for 10
years, assessing and improving
the speech communications
performance of terminals and
networks. He then worked at
OnStar on speech technologies
for 5 years. More recently, he
worked at Apple in the iPhone
group. He joined QNX Software
Systems in 2008. Scott Pennock
received his B.S. from Michigan
State University and his M.S. in
applied psychology from the
Stevens Institute of Technology. |
Bob Reeves, BT Innovate & Design
Bob Reeves graduated from the University of Bath in 1982 with a degree in Electrical & Electronic Engineering. He undertook his engineering training with the Ministry of Defence and spent his early career working on the design of secure communication systems. He joined BT Laboratories in 1986 and worked on the application of adaptive filters to control echo in telephone networks and loud-speaking telephones. Having developed his initial expertise in echo cancellation, Bob is now more associated with voice quality in general (applied to both speech and voice band data), and works in the Voice Quality Engineering Team within BT Innovate and Design. Most recently, he has been involved in the design and testing of voice quality on BT’s Next Generation Network. Bob has also worked closely with standards for 15 years and is currently the Rapporteur of Question 16 within ITU-T Study Group 16, leading the group that develops Recommendations for the performance of network-based signal processing equipment such as echo cancellers and noise reduction devices. |
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