Dr. Liang Vincent WANG is a Senior Manager in XPERI Corp, DTS Inc. He received his B.Eng degree from Xi’an Jiaotong University, China and PhD degree from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. From Jan 2009 to Oct 2011, he was a research staff with School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He joined DTS Inc in 2011 Nov, when the DTS Singapore Technology Centre was opened. Dr. Wang has published in the top journals, conferences and WO patent in the field. He is a senior member of IEEE, and an Associate Editor for IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine, Technical Committee member with APSIPA. Currently he is also serving as the chairman for IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Singapore Chapter.

王靓博士1983年生于西安。2003年取得西安交通大学电子与信息工程学士学位后赴新加坡南洋理工大学攻读硕士博士学位。2010年完成博士学业后在南洋理工大学继续研究工作。2011年加入美国DTS公司新加坡科技中心，现任消费电子音频系统研发高级经理。
王靓博士为高级IEEE会员，IEEE消费电子杂志副主编，IEEE消费电子学会新加坡分会主席, APSIPA音频研究技术委员会会员。
自2008年起担任IEEE Trans. on Audio Speech and Language Processing, Journal of Sound and Vibration，Audio Engineering Society,等多个国际著名期刊及会议的审稿人；至今已在IEEE Trans. on Audio Speech and Language Processing; Journal of Sound and Vibration; IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing 等国际著名期刊和会议上发表相关研究论文共10余篇，参与多项业界领先音频算法研发及实现，并协助指导国内外多个知名消费电子公司音频解决方案。其主持开发的系统已获得国际专利。

Contact:

 Email: Dr.L.Wang {a t} ieee.org

Research Interests: Audio & speech signal processing, 3D audio and multimedia audio applications, consumer electronics, adaptive filtering, array signal processing and beamforming, machine learning in audio applications.

Work Experience:

• Sept 2022: Senior Manager – Mobile Audio, XPERI Corp, DTS Inc, Singapore Technology Center.

• Jan. 2019 ‐ Aug 2022: Staff Engineer, Team Manager – Mobile Audio, XPERI Corp, DTS Inc, Singapore Technology Center.

Leads a team of engineers to integrate, develop audio processing technologies and tools for consumer electronics companies, focusing on mobile, laptop, gaming headphone, etc.

Work with product team to review and provide technical solutions for new product/feature implementation.

• Apr. 2014 ‐ Dec. 2018: Senior Audio Solutions Engineer, DTS Inc, Singapore Technology Center.

Develop/integrate System solutions to provide DTS codec and post processing technologies and tools on different platforms.

Headphone:X solution integration in Windows, Android, iOS

Automotive audio processing tuning/demo tool kit for automotive entertainment system

 

• Nov. 2011 ‐ Mar. 2014: Audio R&D Engineer, DTS Inc, Singapore Technology Center.

Research and development of audio enhancement technologies for both speech and audio signal.

Bass Enhancement, surround virtualization on mobile phones

Clear Voice input processing, stereo AEC.

• Jan. 2009 ‐ Oct. 2011: Research Staff,  School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Loudspeaker array system for sound field control.

 

• July. 2005 ‐ Dec. 2008: Teaching Assistant,  School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Education:

• 2005 ‐ 2010: PhD, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Theoretical analysis of active sound control system.
Interactive surround sound reproduction.

 

• 2004 ‐ 2005: M.Eng, School of Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Developed an active sound profiling system for in cabin noise shaping and bass enhancement.

 

• 1999 ‐ 2003: B.Eng, School of Electronic & Information Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China.

Professional Associations/Appointments and Awards

• IEEE Consumer Electronics Society Technical Committee

2023 – present, Audio/Video Systems and Signal Processing (AVS) Committee member

• IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine

2015 – present, Associate Editor

• IEEE Consumer Electronics Society (Singapore Chapter)

2015 – present,  Secretary, Vice Chair, Chair

• APSIPA Speech, Language and Audio Technical Committee

2017 – present Technical Committee member

Reviewer

Asia Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association (APSIPA)

Audio Engineering Society (AES)

EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing

European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO)

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing (ICALIP)

Journal of Sound and Vibration (JSV)

Invited Talk

Guest Lecture on “Digital Signal Processing – Applications in Audio and Beyond”

Apr, 2019, Singapore Institute of Technology

Awards

Finalist, team leader, ADI 2008 ‘Future Innovators’ University Design Competition

Students Travel Grant, IEEE International Symposium on Consumer Electronics 2005 (sponsored by Philips)

Community Service

Youth Executive Committee (Yio Chu Kang)

2015 – 2019, Committee member, Auditor

Green View Neighbourhood Committee (Ang Mo Kio GRC)

2016 – present, Committee member, Vice Chair

 

Research Publications

International Journals:

L. V. Wang, W. S. Gan, A. K. W. Khong, and S. M. Kuo, “Convergence Analysis of Narrowband Feedback Active Noise Control System with Imperfect Secondary-Path Estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (IEEE TASLP), vol.21, no.11, pp. 2403-2411, Nov 2013.

L. Wang and W. S. Gan, “Convergence Analysis of Narrowband Active Noise Equalizer System under Imperfect Secondary Path Estimation,” IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing (IEEE TASLP), vol.17, no.4, pp. 566‐571, May 2009.

L. Wang, W. S. Gan and S. M. Kuo, “Integration of Bass Enhancement and Active Noise Control System in Automobile Cabin,” Advances in Acoustics and Vibration (AAV), vol. 2008, article ID 869130, 2008.

L. Wang and W. S. Gan, “Analysis of misequalization in a narrowband active noise equalizer system,” Journal of Sound and Vibration (JSV), vol. 311, pp. 1438–1446, 2008.

International Conferences:
L. Wang, W. S. Gan, Y. K. Chong and S. M. Kuo, “Step Size Bound for Narrowband Feedback Active Noise Control”, 2013 APSIPA Annual Summit and Conference, Taiwan, Nov 2013.

L. Wang, A. W. H. Khong and W. S. Gan, “On the conditioning of the propagation function in a nearfield loudspeaker array”, 2010 European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO), Aalborg, Denmark, Aug 2010.

L. Wang and W. S. Gan, “Analysis of active noise equalization system with imperfect secondary path estimation,” 2008 International Conference on Audio, Language and Image Processing (ICALIP), Shanghai, China, July 2008.

L. Wang, W. S. Gan and Y. K. Chong, “New Equalizing Scheme of Active Noise Equalization System in Automobile Cabin,” 2007 International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME), Beijing, China, July 2007.

L. Wang, W. S. Gan and S. M. Kuo, “A Novel Approach to Bass Enhancement in Automobile Cabin,” 2006 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), Toulouse, France, May 2006.

Y. K. Chong, L. Wang, W. S. Gan, and S.C. Ting, “Integrated Headsets Using the Adaptive Hybrid Active Noise Control System”, 2005 International Conference on Information Communications and Signal Processing(ICICS), Bangkok, Thailand, Dec 2005.

L. Wang, W. S. Gan and S. M. Kuo, “Bass Enhancement for Automobile Multimedia System Using Active Noise Equalizer,” The Ninth International Symposium on Consumer Electronics 2005 (ISCE), Macau, China, June 2005.

Patents
L. V. Wang, C. Yap, S. Rathoud, C. Tio, “Directional based audio response to an external environment emergency signal,” WO 2013155102 A1, Oct 2013. US9397630 B2, Jul 2016

Fun fact:

Enjoy staying in Anechoic chamber for hours.