Title: Active noise control
Speaker: Professor Stephen Elliott
From: Director of Institute of Sound and Vibration Research at the University of Southampton
Professor of Adaptive Systems, Signal Processing and Control Group
Time: 10:00 a.m. Nov.4, 2008
Place: Room 218 of Dezhao Building
Stephen Elliott graduated with joint honours in physics and electronics from the University of London in 1976 and received the Ph.D. degree from the University of Surrey for a thesis on musical acoustics in 1979.
After a short period as a research fellow working on acoustic intensity measurement and as a temporary lecturer at the University of Surrey, he was appointed lecturer at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR) at the University of Southampton, UK, in 1982, under the SERC Special Replacement Scheme. He was made senior lecturer at ISVR in 1988 and Professor of Adaptive Systems in 1994.
He has authored three books and published 150 papers in refereed journals, and produced over 300 conference papers and other reports.
Professor Elliott is a member of the Acoustical Society of America, a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Fellow of the IEE and IoA. He was jointly awarded the Tyndall Medal by the Institute of Acoustics in 1992.