Dr. Malcolm Slaney is a principal scientist at Yahoo! Research and a
(consulting) Professor at Stanford CCRMA where he has led the Hearing
Seminar for the last 20 years. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and Associate
Editors of IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing and
IEEE Multimedia Magazine. He has given successful tutorials at ICASSP
1996 and 2009 on "Applications of Psychoacoustics to Signal Processing",
on "Multimedia Information Retrieval" at SIGIR and ICASSP, and
"Web-Scale Multimedia Data" at ACM Multimedia 2010. He is a coauthor,
with A. C. Kak, of the IEEE book "Principles of Computerized Tomographic
Imaging." This book was republished by SIAM in their "Classics in
Applied Mathematics" Series. He is coeditor, with Steven Greenberg, of
the book "Computational Models of Auditory Function." Before Yahoo!, Dr.
Slaney has worked at Bell Laboratory, Schlumberger Palo Alto Research,
Apple Computer, Interval Research and IBM's Almaden Research Center. For
the last several years he has lead the auditory group at the Telluride
Neuromorphic Cognition Workshop. Dr. Slaney is a Principal Scientist at
Yahoo! Research where he has been working on multimedia analysis and
music- and image-retrieval algorithms in databases with billions of
items.
