Jonathan Abel

Contact

Telephone
650.723.4971 ext. 302
Office
The Knoll, Bldg. 300
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Jonathan Abel

Adjunct Professor
Area(s) of Expertise
Degrees / Education
Ph.D. (EE), Stanford University, 1989
M.S. (EE), Stanford University, 1984
S.B. (EE), MIT, 1982

Jonathan S. Abel is a Consulting Professor at the Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA) in the Department of Music at Stanford University, working in music and audio applications of signal and array processing, parameter estimation and acoustics. Abel was a co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of the GRAMMY Award winning Universal Audio, Inc. He was previously a researcher at NASA/Ames Research Center, Chief Scientist of Crystal River Engineering, Inc., and a Lecturer in the Department of Electrical Engineering at Yale University. As an industry consultant, Abel has worked with Apple, Dolby, FDNY, LSI Logic, L3 Technologies, LR Baggs, Native Instruments, SAIC, Sennheiser, Sigma Cubed, Triple Ring, and the U.S. NRL on projects in professional audio, GPS, fire department siting and deployment, medical imaging, room acoustics measurement, audio effects processing, passive sonar, and microsiesmic signal processing. He holds Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Stanford University, and an S.B. from MIT, all in electrical engineering. Abel is a Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society for contributions to audio effects processing.