Toon van Waterschoot
Professor
KU Leuven
Toon van Waterschoot received MSc (2001) and PhD (2009) degrees in Electrical Engineering, both from KU Leuven, Belgium, where he is currently Full Professor and Campus Chair. His research interests are in signal processing, machine learning, and numerical optimization, applied to acoustic signal enhancement, acoustic modeling, audio analysis, and audio reproduction. He has been the Scientific Coordinator for several major European research projects: the FP7-PEOPLE Marie Curie Initial Training Network “Dereverberation and Reverberation of Audio, Music, and Speech (DREAMS, 2013-2016)”, the H2020 ERC Consolidator Grant “The Spatial Dynamics of Room Acoustics (SONORA, 2018-2023)”, and the H2020 MSCA European Training Network “Service-Oriented Ubiquitous Network-Driven Sound (SOUNDS, 2021-2025)”. He has been serving on the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, the EURASIP Journal on Audio, Music, and Speech Processing, and Signal Processing Open. He has been on the Organizing Committee of numerous international conferences, and has served as General Chair for the 60th AES International Conference and the 34th European Signal Processing Conference (EUSIPCO 2026). He is Executive Director of the European Association for Signal Processing (EURASIP) and Founding Member of the EAA Technical Committee in Audio Signal Processing.