Wieslaw Woszczyk
Dr. Wieslaw Woszczyk holds the James McGill Chair Professorship in Sound Recording and is the Founding Director of the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Music Media and Technology at McGill University (2001). He has previously founded the Graduate Program in Sound Recording at McGill in 1979 renown for the high quality of graduates.
As Chairman of the Technical Council of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) he has contributed to establishing 17 expert Technical Committees, developing Board of Governors approved new Policy for the Publications of Technical Council, launching new publications (in print, web and CD-ROM), and co-founding in 1999 the Distinguished Richard C. Heyser Memorial Lectures Series that constitutes the Audio Engineering Society’s most prestigious endowed lectureship.
He was the first foreign scientist invited by Bang & Olufsen A/S in Denmark to join as a Visiting Professor their R&D department in 1994 to study viewer involvement and audio-visual interactions. In 1995, he received a Hoso Bunka Foundation award to review the work of HDTV Multichannel Sound Study Group in Japan. His research, developed in partnership with prestigious industrial research and development companies, is supported by government and industrial grants valued at $8.7 million for individual research and projects in which he is principal applicant.
Dr. Woszczyk received the Board of Governors Award, Fellowship Award, and the Citation Award from the Board of Governors of Audio Engineering Society for "pioneering the technology enabling collaborative multichannel performance over the broadband Internet".
With strong expertise in emerging technologies he has organized international conferences and seminars, published numerous papers and recordings, and designed recording tools manufactured by European microphone companies.
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