Tuomas Virtanen appointed as Academy Research Fellow
The Academy of Finland has awarded a five-year research fellowship to Tuomas Virtanen from the Department of Signal Processing at Tampere University of Technology (TUT).Virtanen develops computational methods for acoustic event detection in natural multisource environments. Sound source separation has several applications in the analysis, editing and manipulation of audio signals. These include, for example, structured audio coding, automatic transcription of music, and noise-robust automatic speech recognition.
The Academy of Finland accepted about one tenth of the applicants for a research fellowship. The age of those who were accepted ranged from 30 to 39 and one fifth of them were women. More than half of the newly appointed Academy Research Fellows had post-doc experience of working abroad and almost a third were planning to spend more than 12 months working abroad during the fellowship period. DTech Leena Ukkonen from the Department of Electronics at TUT was also appointed as Academy Research Fellow.