About Speaker

Hyunkook Lee is Professor of Audio and Psychoacoustic Engineering and the Director of the Applied Psychoacoustics Laboratory (APL) and the Centre for Audio and Psychoacoustic Engineering (CAPE) at the University of Huddersfield, UK. His research areas include the perception, recording, rendering and reproduction of 3D immersive audio, virtual acoustics and binaural audio synthesis, and immersive audio experience. Before joining Huddersfield in 2010, he was a Senior Research Engineer with LG Electronics in South Korea, where he contributed to MPEG audio codec standaridzation activities and developed spatial audio algorithms for mobile devices. He received a bachelor’s degree in music and sound recording (Tonmeister) from the University of Surrey, UK, in 2002 and a PhD in spatial audio psychoacoustics from the Institute of Sound Recording at the same University in 2006. Hyunkook is a Fellow of the AES, a Technical Associate Editor of the AES Journal and the Vice Chair of the AES High-Resolution Audio Technical Committee. He was the co-chair of the 2023 AES International Conference on Spatial and Immersive Audio.