Prof. Anibal Ferreira

Aníbal Ferreira is Associate Professor in the ECE Department of the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Porto, in Portugal, where he lectures in the areas of signal theory, physiological signal processing, multimedia and telecommunications. His research career started in 1988 at Philips Research Labs, in Eindhoven (The Netherlands), on automatic VLSI silicon compilation of signal processing blocks. In 1990/91, and in 1993, he was a consultant at AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, in the area of perceptual audio coding. This work led to relevant contributions to the specification of the MPEG-Audio AAC standard, and to proprietary solutions currently in use for satellite radio broadcasting (SiriusXm Satellite Radio). Dr. Ferreira has participated in several European research projects and has coordinated eight Portuguese research projects in the areas of real-time audio analysis, synthesis, compression, modification, transcription, and dysphonic voice analysis and reconstruction. Dr. Ferreira has also been involved in several entrepreneurial initiatives addressing voice quality assessment, biofeedback in stuttering treatment, visual feedback of the singing voice, and multimedia communication. His research interests include psychoacoustics, audio and voice/speech analysis, synthesis and coding, multirate filter banks, acoustic analysis of the spoken and singing voice, dysphonic voice reconstruction, and forensic audio.