Mads Christensen received his Ph.D. in 2005 from Aalborg University in Denmark, where he is also currently employed at the Department of Electronic Systems as Assistant Professor. He has been a visiting researcher at Philips Research Labs, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Telecommunications, Columbia University, and University of California Santa Barbara. Dr. Christensen has received several awards, namely an ICASSP Student Paper Award, the Spar Nord Foundations Research Prize for his Ph.D. thesis, and a Danish Independent Research Councils Young Researchers Award. His research interests include digital signal processing theory and methods with application to speech and audio, in particular parametric analysis, modeling, and coding.Andreas Jakobsson received his M.Sc. from Lund Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in Signal Processing from Uppsala University in 1993 and 2000, respectively. Since, he has held positions with Global IP Sound AB, the Swedish Royal Institute of Technology, Kings College London, and Karlstad University. He has also been a visiting researcher at Kings College London, Brigham Young University, Stanford University, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and University of California, San Diego. He is currently Professor of Mathematical Statistics at Lund University, Sweden. He also holds an Honorary Research Fellowship at Cardiff University, UK. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel (SAM) Signal Processing Technical Committee, and an Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, the IEEE Signal Processing Letters and the Research Letters in Signal Processing. His research interests include statistical and array signal processing, detection and estimation theory, and related application in remote sensing, telecommunication and biomedicine.
