NEWS    Jonathan Le Roux Elected Vice Chair and Gordon Wichern Reelected as Member of the IEEE AASP Technical Committee

Date released: November 21, 2025

  •  NEWS    Jonathan Le Roux Elected Vice Chair and Gordon Wichern Reelected as Member of the IEEE AASP Technical Committee
  • Date:

    November 14, 2025

  • Description:

    Two members of MERL’s Speech and Audio Team have been elected to important positions within the IEEE Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing Technical Committee (AASP TC), a leading body of the IEEE Signal Processing Society that brings together experts from academia and industry working on speech, music, environmental audio, spatial acoustics, enhancement, separation, and machine learning for audio. The committee plays a central role in guiding the scientific direction of the field by promoting emerging research areas, shaping major conferences such as ICASSP and WASPAA, organizing special sessions and tutorials, and fostering a vibrant and collaborative global community.

    Jonathan Le Roux, Senior Team Leader and Distinguished Research Scientist, has been elected as the next Vice Chair of the AASP TC. His election reflects his longstanding contributions to the audio and acoustic signal processing community, his leadership in workshop and conference organization, and his significant impact across a wide range of research areas within the TC’s scope. Jonathan will serve a one-year term as Vice Chair, after which he will succeed Prof. Minje Kim (UIUC) as Chair of the AASP TC for a two-year term in 2027–28, helping steer the committee’s strategic initiatives and continued growth.

    During the same election, Senior Principal Research Scientist Gordon Wichern, who currently serves as Chair of the Review Subcommittee, was reelected for a second three-year term as a member of the AASP TC, serving from 2026 to 2028. His continued presence on the committee reflects his impactful research and active service to the audio and acoustic signal processing community.

  • External Link:

    https://signalprocessingsociety.org/community-involvement/audio-and-acoustic-signal-processing

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  • Research Areas:

    Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Speech & Audio