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Federico Fontana

Prof. Federico Fontana

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Federico Fontana received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering from the University of Padova, Padua, Italy, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Verona, Verona, Italy, in 2003. During the Ph.D. degree studies, he was a Research Consultant in design and realization of real-time audio DSP systems. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, teaching auditory and tactile interaction and computer architectures. In 2001, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland. His interests include interactive sound processing methods and the design and evaluation of musical interfaces. He coordinated the EU project 222107 NIW under the FP7 ICT-2007.8.0 FET-Open call from 2008 to 2011. Since 2021 he has been a Senior Area Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. Since 2023 he serves also as an Associate Researcher for the Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland. His research interests mainly include interactive audio signal processing, and design and evaluation of musical interfaces.

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Federico Fontana received the Laurea degree in electronic engineering from the University of Padova, Padua, Italy, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from the University of Verona, Verona, Italy, in 2003. During the Ph.D. degree studies, he was a Research Consultant in design and realization of real-time audio DSP systems. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Mathematics, Computer Science and Physics, University of Udine, Udine, Italy, teaching auditory and tactile interaction and computer architectures. In 2001, he was a Visiting Scholar with the Laboratory of Acoustics and Audio Signal Processing, Helsinki University of Technology, Espoo, Finland. His interests include interactive sound processing methods and the design and evaluation of musical interfaces. He coordinated the EU project 222107 NIW under the FP7 ICT-2007.8.0 FET-Open call from 2008 to 2011. Since 2021 he has been a Senior Area Editor for IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. Since 2023 he serves also as an Associate Researcher for the Zurich University of the Arts in Switzerland. His research interests mainly include interactive audio signal processing, and design and evaluation of musical interfaces.