Kees Janse

Kees Janse received his B.S. degree in electrical engineering in 1976 from the Polytechnical School in Vlissingen, the Netherlands. He joined the acoustics group of Philips Research Laboratories in 1978, where his work focused on measuring techniques and signal analysis, for example, evaluating loudspeakers with the aid of the Wigner distribution. In 1984, he joined the project center of Philips Research, where his work focused on the design of geographic data bases for car navigation systems. In 1988, he joined the radio data transmission group (and later on the digital signal processing group) of Philips Research and since then he has been working in the field of handsfree signal processing, including acoustic echo cancellation, acoustic feedback suppression, acoustic noise reduction, and dereverberation of speech signals. He has written and presented papers and holds a number of patents in his field.

Biography Updated on 5 October 2003