music information retrieval; and musical acoustics. He is the coordinator of the M.Sc. program in " Music and Acoustic Engineering. " He received his Ph.D. degree in information engineering from the University of Padova, Italy in 1993, with a joint graduate program with the University of California, Berkeley. From 2013 to 2017, he also held a Professorship at the University of California, Davis. He is currently serving on the EURASIP Board of Directors. 20 IEEE Instrumentation & Measurement Magazine October 2021