Professor Vesa Välimäki becomes IEEE Fellow
It is the institute’s highest member grade. Välimäki is a professor at the Department of Signal Processing and Acoustics at the Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering.
For Professor Vesa Välimäki, this honor will be effective from January 1, 2015. Professor Välimäki’s citation for promotion is “for contributions to synthesis and processing of audio signals”. Vesa Välimäki has been a professor of audio signal processing since 2002.
The IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) has more than 400,000 members in 160 countries, and it publishes nearly a third of the scientific literature in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics, and computer science. The IEEE elects annually some of its members with extraordinary accomplishments to be elevated to the status of IEEE Fellow, with the limitation that their number cannot exceed one-tenth of one-percent of the total membership.
Further information:
List of prominent members of IEEE in Finnish Section
Professor Vesa Välimäki
vesa.valimaki@aalto.fi
tel. +358 50 569 1176
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