Malcolm Slaney

Dr. Malcolm Slaney is an Adjunct Professor at CCRMA, where he has led the Hearing Seminar for more than 30 years. He is also a Principal Investigator at the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, and an Affiliate Professor in the Electrical Engineering Department at the University of Washington. He leads projects on auditory perception. He received his PhD from Purdue University for his work on imaging with inverse scattering.  

Dr. Slaney 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.” 

Dr. Slaney has served as an Associate Editor of IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Signal Processing and IEEE Multimedia Magazine and a guest editor for the Proceedings of the IEEE and ACM Transactions on Multimedia Computing. 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 “Web­Scale Multimedia Data” at ACM Multimedia 2010. 

Before becoming a full-time academic, Dr. Slaney has worked at Bell Laboratory, Schlumberger Palo Alto Research, Apple Computer, Interval Research, IBM’s Almaden Research Center, Yahoo! Research, and Microsoft Research, and Google Research. Dr. Slaney’s recent work is on understanding auditory perception and decoding auditory attention from brain signals. 

Dr. Slaney is a Life Fellow of the IEEE, a Senior member of ACM, and a member of the Association for Research in Otolaryngology (ARO).  The Northern Arizona moth Clepsis anderslaneyii is named for Dr. Slaney and his wife Sara Anderson.