Tiago H. Falk

Tiago H. Falk received the B.Sc. degree from the Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil, in 2002, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Queen's University, Canada, in 2005 and 2008, respectively, all in electrical engineering. From 2009-2010, he was an NSERC Postdoctoral Fellow at Holland-Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital, affiliated with the University of Toronto. Since December 2010 he has been an Assistant Professor at INRS-EMT in Montreal, where he directs the Multimedia/modal Signal Analysis and Enhancement (MuSAE) Lab. Since August 2014, he has been an Adjunct Professor at the ECE Department, McGill University.

Prof. Falk’s research interests include multimedia quality measurement and enhancement, quality of experience (QoE), neuromarketing, biomedical signal processing, rehabilitation engineering, biometrics, and knowledge discovery. He and his research team have published over 130 papers in top-tiered journals, peer-reviewed conferences and international book chapters covering these topics.

Throughout academic career, he has received several research excellence awards, including the IEEE Kingston Section Ph.D. Research Excellence Award (2008), the 2009-2010 IBBME Best Paper Award (category: Engineering in a Clinical Setting), the Best Student Paper Awards at the International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (2005) and the International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (2008); the Best Paper Award at the Intl. Conf. on Information Science, Signal Processing and their Applications; as well as the Prof. Newton Maia Young Scientist Award (2001). He is Senior Member of the IEEE, a Technical Committee Member of the IEEE-SLTC, a Member of the Sigma Xi Scientific Research Society, as well as a Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of the Canadian Acoustical Association. He has helped organize and chair several conferences and workshops, both nationally and internationally, including: QoMEX’2013, WoSSPA’2013, ISSPA’2012, and CCECE’2012.