Woon-Seng Gan received his BEng (1st Class Hons) and PhD degrees, both in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, UK in 1989 and 1993 respectively. He is currently a Professor of Audio Engineering and Director of the Smart Nation Lab in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University. He also served as the Head of the Information Engineering Division in the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Nanyang Technological University from 2011to 2014, and as director of the Centre for Infocomm Technology from 2016 to 2019. His research has been concerned with the connections between the physical world, signal processing, and sound control, which resulted in the practical demonstration and licensing of spatial audio algorithms, directional sound beam, and active noise control for headphones and open windows.
He has published more than 400 international refereed journals and conferences and has translated his research into 6 granted patents. He had co-authored three books on Subband Adaptive Filtering: Theory and Implementation (John Wiley, 2009); Embedded Signal Processing with the Micro Signal Architecture, (Wiley-IEEE, 2007); and Digital Signal Processors: Architectures, Implementations, and Applications (Prentice Hall, 2005). He has also given several keynotes and distinguished lecturer speeches at IEEE, AES, and APSIPA conferences. He was also the recipient of the 2017 APSIPA Sadoaki Furui’s Book Prize
He is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society(AES), a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology(IET), and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He served as an Associate Editor of the IEEE/ACM Transaction on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (TASLP; 2012-15) and was presented with an Outstanding TASLP Editorial Board Service Award in 2016. He also served as the Associate Editor for the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2015-19). He is currently serving as a Senior Area Editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters (2019-); Associate Technical Editor of the Journal of Audio Engineering Society (JAES; 2013-); Editorial member of the Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA; 2011-) Transaction on Signal and Information Processing; Associate Editor of the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing (2007-).
He was elected as Board of Governor in 2014 and Vice President – Institutional Relations and Education Program in 2017 for the Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA). He also participates actively in the IEEE Signal Processing Industry DSP committee and IEEE IoT special interest group. He also served as a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Design and Implementation of Signal Processing System from 2012 to 2015 and 2019-; IEEE Signal Processing Education Technical Committee from 2009 to 2015. Additionally, he is also the General Conference Chair of the APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference in 2017, and he is the Technical Program Chair of the upcoming IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP) to be held in Singapore in 2022.
Prof. Gan and his work have been covered in several press articles, including New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Scientific American, IEEE Spectrum, New Scientist Magazine, Naver (S. Korea), and featured in media like CBS Innovation Nation (USA), Nas Daily (Singapore), Galileo TV (Germany), Channel News Asia (Singapore).