Timo Gerkmann is a professor with the Universität Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, where he is the head of the Signal Processing Research Group. He has previously held positions with Technicolor Research & Innovation in Hanover, Germany, the Carl-von-Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany, and Siemens Corporate Research in Princeton, NJ, USA. His main research interests include statistical signal processing and machine learning for speech and audio applied to communication devices, hearing instruments, audiovisual media, and human-machine interfaces. Timo Gerkmann served as a Member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing and currently serves as a Senior Area Editor of the IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.
