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Mark is an experienced senior academic with over
25 years' experience in Digital Signal Processing. He has a strong
worldwide reputation in DSP including two industry-recognised premiums. Mark
is currently Director of the Centre for Digital Music at Queen Mary
University of London, where he is responsible for a team of 30, active
in streaming, compression, automatic music transcription, music information
retrieval, semantic audio analysis and processing, and more generally,
DSP.
Mark has particular experience in Audio Compression. In 2000 he co-founded
Insonify - a company launched to exploit fine-grain scalable audio codec
technology - including raising investment from Silicon Valley angels.
He has published 19 papers in this area, tutored 2 PhD students and several
MSc theses and given courses to numerous MSc students. He has also registered
and supported several patents.
Mark's consulting experience includes activity with Simmons Electronics
(working on digital drum synthesis), Texas Instruments, Motorola and
Wolfson (Digital Power Amplifiers) and Origin UK (consulting Patent Scientist).
He was also audio team leader for OMRAS, a world-leading, international
music retrieval research project. He is also an international grant reviewer
for the Belgian, Dutch, Irish and Finnish governments and the British
Council. His research projects have included shared-memory multi-processor
architectures for image & video
processing as well as building the world's first high quality digital power
amplifiers.
Mark is a Chartered Engineer, a Fellow of The Institution of Electrical Engineers,
a Fellow of the AES-Audio Engineering Society (for pioneering work in Digital
Audio Amplification) and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is a member of the
Audio Engineering Society Technical Committee on Audio Coding, a member of
the IEEE Signal Processing Society Technical Committee on Audio and Electroacoustics.,
and was Royal Society Visiting Research Professor in Dept of Electrical Engineering,
Technion., Israel, Jan-Apr 1995.
Mark's efforts have also been rewarded with prestigious industry premiums,
as follows:
- Winner, lEE A.H.Reeves Premium for 1996, for the paper "Hybrid Pulse
Width Modulation/Sigma Delta Modulation Power Digital to Analogue Conversion",
(co-authored)
- Winner, lEE A.H.Reeves Premium for 1997, for the paper "Realization
and Implementation of Sigma Delta Bitstream FIR Filter", (co-authored)
Mark is the founding Chair of the Audio Engineering Society Technical Committee
in Semantic Audio Analysis and co-chair, 6th ISMIR (Int. Conf. Music Info.
Retrieval). He was General Chair DAFx03-conference on Digital Audio processing
in 2003. He is founding editor of Springer journal, Applied Signal Processing,
and has published around 300 papers in journals, books and conferences
on both audio and video.
Mark has undertaken expert witness work for a number of international law firms.
He has provided expert testimony in several cases, particularly in the field
of patent infringement.
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