Course Leader

Dr Gan Woon Seng has conducted several highly acclaimed industry courses in the area of Digital Signal Processing using MATLAB, Real-Time Signal Processing and Advance Signal Processing. He received his B.Eng (1st Class Hons) and PhD degrees, both in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Strathclyde, UK in 1989 and 1993 respectively. He joined the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore as a Lecturer and Senior Lecturer in 1993 and 1998 respectively. Currently, he is an Associate Professor. He teaches several undergraduate, postgraduate and industry courses on Digital Signal Processing and Real-Time Signal Processing Implementation.

Dr Gan research interests include directional sound beam (Audio Beam System), active noise control, adaptive signal processing, psycho-acoustical signal processing embedded media processing and real-time digital signal processing. He has published over 180 International refereed journals and conferences. He led two teams of undergraduates to top the Asia/Japan Territory in the 1997/98 and semi-finalist of the 00/01 Texas Instruments World Wide DSP and Analog Solutions Challenge respectively. He has also won the Institute of Engineer Singapore (IES) Prestigious Engineering Achievement Award 2001 for the project on Audio Beam.

He had co-authored a DSP core textbook: Digital Signal Processors: Architectures,Implementations, and Applications, (Prentice Hall 2005). This book has since been translated to Chinese for adoption by universities in China. He is also the leading author of a new book on Embedded Signal Processing with the Micro-Signal Architecture, (Wiley-IEEE 2007). A new book on Subband Adaptive Filtering: Theory and Implementation was also published by John Wiley in August 2009.

He is currently the Deputy Director of the National Centre for Signal Processing at Nanyang Technological University. He was also the co-chairman of the Task Force for the DAB Steering Committee, Singapore (2001) and was a committee member (1999-2001) for the Audio Engineering Society, Singapore. He is a Senior Member of IEEE, a member of the Signal processing Education technical committedd of the IEEE Signal Processing Society, a Member of Audio Engineering Society and a Professional Engineers of Singapore. He is also listed in the Philips “Faculty 300” Centre for Technical Training International Training Guide. His biographical profile is also included in the 2003-04 Marquis Who’s Who in Science and Engineering. He is also the Associated Editor for the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech and Music Processing; Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering; and the Editorial Advisor Board member for the Open Acoustics Journal. He has also been frequently invited overseas to present his work on active noise control and directional sound system.

He is currently leading a group of nine researchers working on different areas of audio signal processing, acoustics signal processing, phycho-acoustics, real-time DSP, etc. He has received several major research grants, which include a Agency of Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) grant working on directional audio, a Texas Instruments research grants on DSP implementation of advanced image/video system, and Analog Devices teaching grants to develop real-time DSP course for undergraduate and postgraduate studies. MOE Academic Research Fund Tier 1 (2009 ~ 2012). Media Development Authority (MDA) IDM R&D Programme (2007~2010) and (2008~2011)