Emanuël Habets
Head Of Spatial Audio Research
Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany
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Top SchoolEmanuël Habets is a leading researcher and technology executive in spatial audio and acoustic signal processing, serving as Head of Spatial Audio Research at the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen and Co-Head of Department Speech and Audio Research at Fraunhofer IIS. With a PhD from Eindhoven and postdoctoral experience at Technion and Bar-Ilan, he has built a two-decade career bridging academic rigor and applied R&D in dereverberation, noise reduction, localization, and spatial sound reproduction. He has held professorial and leadership roles at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg and Imperial College London and has steered major conferences and editorial venues in audio signal processing. His work is recognized by an IEEE Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award and influential service on EURASIP and IEEE technical committees. Beyond publications, he translates complex audio theory into practical systems for industry use, reflecting a rare combination of deep theoretical insight and hands-on engineering leadership.
10 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering at Eindhoven University of TechnologyB.Sc. Electrical Engineering, B.Sc. Electrical Engineering at Zuyd University of Applied Sciences
Dutch, English, German
Github Skills (10)
simulation10
reflections10
matlab10
noise-generator10
monte-carlo7
python7
system-identification7
quaternions7
audio6
speech4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
ehabets/INF-Generator
Apr 2016 - Dec 2019
Generating sensor signals in isotropic noise fields (MATLAB)
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 3 years 8 months
matlabsimulationisotropic-noisenoise-generator
ehabets/RIR-Generator
Apr 2016 - Jan 2022
Room Impulse Response Generator (MATLAB)
Contributions:4 releases, 1 review, 18 commits in 5 years 10 months
matlabimage-source-modelreflectionsreverberationroom-acoustics-simulation
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