SAN FRANCISCO – AES will present two Student Technical Paper Awards Nov. 4 at 1 p.m. during the opening ceremonies for the 129th AES Convention in Moscone Center. The recipients are Tejaswi Nanjundaswamy, University of California, Santa Barbara, and Tobias Ritter, Technical University of Denmark.
Nanjundaswamy's paper, "Perceptual Distortion-Rate Optimization of Long Term Prediction in MPEG AAC" was co-authored by Vinay Melkote, Emmanuel Ravelli, and Kenneth Rose. Nanjundaswamy graduated with a B.E. degree from the National Institute of Technology, Karnataka, India with a major in Electronics and Communications in 2004. He worked at Ittiam Systems, India, specializing in Audio codecs and post-processing for embedded platforms. He completed his M.S. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 2009 and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. degree at UCSB under the guidance of Prof. Kenneth Rose. His research is focused towards Audio and Speech compression. His paper will be in lecture session P21 on Nov. 7 from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
{mosimage}Ritter's paper, "Modeling Viscoelasticity of Loudspeaker Suspensions using Retardation Spectra," was co-authored by Finn Agerkvist. Ritter graduated as B.Eng. from Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany in 2008 with a major in engineering physics and as M.Sc. (Eng) from Technical University of Denmark with a major in acoustics. His paper will appear in lecture session P11 on Nov. 5 from 2:30-6:30 pm.
Convention Papers co-chairs this year were Veronique Larcher and Rob Maher. "The Awards Committee maintains extremely high standards for Student Technical Papers," noted Maher, who also serves as Student Technical Paper Award Coordinator. "It should be noted that there have been occasions in past years when no Student Paper Award was presented. That two papers were selected this year is extraordinary, and, indicative of the level of excellence which they represent."
Co-chair Larcher added that "both papers are now eligible for publication consideration in the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society. The AES extends this year's winners our sincere congratulations for their superlative work."
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