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acoustic media. He founded Sensear in 2006 and is also its technol-

ogy inventor. He is a member of the IEEE Signal Processing Society

Technical Committee on Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing and

is an associate editor of Journal of the Franklin Institute.

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