Monophonic sonification for spatial navigation
Dr. Phil. Tim Ziemer, Researcher at the University of Bremen
Dr. Phil. Tim Ziemer is a musicologist with an interest in the implementation of psychoacoustics in technological innovation.
He carried out research on Sound Field Synthesis at the University of Hamburg, on Music Information Retrieval at the National Institute of Informatics (NII), Tokyo, and on Sonification at the Bremen Spatial Cognition Center at the University of Bremen.
Due to his innovative work he received several awards by the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), the Spatial Cognition conference series, Huyndai Motors and the International Community on Auditory Displays (ICAD).
The future in physical modeling and auralization
Prof. Dr. Rolf Bader, Professor for Systematic Musicology at the Institute of Systematic Musicology, University of Hamburg
Rolf Bader studied Systematic Musicology, Physics, Ethnology, and Historic Musicology at the University of Hamburg where he obtained his PhD and Habilitation.
He is Professor for Systematic Musicology at the Institute of Systematic Musicology, University of Hamburg since 2007.
His major fields of research are Musical Acoustics and Musical Signal Processing, Musical Hardware and Software Development, Music Ethnology, Music Psychology, and Philosophy of Music.
He published several books and papers about these topics.
He was a visiting scholar at the Center for Computer Music and Research (CCRMA) at Stanford University 2005-6.
He was also working as a professional musician, composer, and artist, running recording studios, working as a music journalist, leading exhibitions, and running a cinema. He conducted fieldwork as an Ethnomusicologist in Bali, Nepal, Thailand, Cambodia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, China and India since 1999.
Digital to natural - Innovation for smart world
Dr. Katsuhiko Kawazoe,Senior Vice President / Head of Research and Development Planning, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation
Katsuhiko Kawazoe is a senior vice president and the head of research and development planning of NTT. He received his B.E. and M.E. degrees in engineering from Waseda University, Tokyo, in 1985 and 1987, respectively.
He also received his Ph. D. in information engineering from Kyoto University, Kyoto in 2009.
Since joining NTT in 1987, he has mainly been engaged in R&D of radio and satellite communication systems, the personal handy-phone system (PHS) and broadcast-broadband convergence services.
He became the head of NTT Service Evolution Laboratories in 2014, and head of NTT Service Innovation Laboratory Group in 2016.
He assumed his present position in June 2018.
He had served as President of ITE from 2018 to 2019.