Nilesh Madhu

Nilesh Madhu is professor for audio, speech and signal processing at Ghent University, Belgium.

He was granted his Dr.-Ing. degree (summa cum laude) from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in 2009. His dissertation was on algorithms for the localisation and separation of acoustic sources using microphone arrays. Following this he was awarded a Marie-Curie fellowship for a two-year postdoctoral stay at the KU Leuven, Belgium, where he gained expertise in the fields of hearing prostheses and biomedical signal analysis. During his industry tenure at NXP Semiconductors, Belgium, he held the position of principal scientist within the product line Mobile Audio Solutions. He and his team worked on developing beyond state-of-the-art algorithms for audio and speech enhancement in mobile devices. These algorithms have since been successfully deployed on several flagship models of major smartphone OEMs.

At UGent, he leads a young team of keen, motivated researchers exploring various applications in the fields of communications, healthcare and automation.

Expertise: audio, machine learning, signal processing