Jonathan Abel
Jonathan S. Abel is Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Universal Audio, Inc., a professional audio equipment manufacturer. He is also a visiting scholar at CCRMA, the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics at Stanford University, studying music and audio applications of signal processing. He was previously a researcher at NASA/Ames Research Center exploring topics in array processing, room acoustics and spatial hearing on a grant through the San Jose State University Foundation. Dr. Abel was also Chief Scientist at Crystal River Engineering, Inc., where he developed their positional audio technology, and was a lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University and an S.B. from MIT, all in electrical engineering.