Sebastian Braun

About

My research interests are in the field of audio and acoustic signal processing, e.g. speech enhancement and separation, microphone array processing, acoustic localization and tracking, acoustic parameter estimation, perceptual acoustics and spatial audio.

I work closely with product teams at Microsoft to develop algorithms for suppressing echo, noise, reverberation and interfering speakers, to improve captured speech signal quality and intelligibility for human and machine listeners, and to separate audio sources.

Academic career

2018-present: Researcher at Microsoft Research
2018: Research intern at Microsoft Research
2012-2018: PhD (Dr.-Ing.) at the International Audio Laboratories Erlangen (opens in new tab) (FAU Erlangen (opens in new tab) in collaboration with Fraunhofer IIS (opens in new tab)). Thesis “Speech dereverberation in noisy environments using time-frequency domain signal models (opens in new tab)”
2017: Research visit at MUSAE Lab (opens in new tab) at INRS (opens in new tab), Montreal, Canada.
2006-2012: Bsc and Msc (Dipl.-Ing.) in electrical and sound engineering at TU (opens in new tab) and KU (opens in new tab) Graz, Austria