Jamie Angus
Professor of Audio Technology
Contact details
Email: j.a.s.angus@salford.ac.uk
Telephone: 0161 295 4426
Location: Newton Building
Profile
Jamie Angus' interest in audio was crystallised at the age of 11 when she visited the WOR studios in New York City on a school trip in 1967. From that point on she was hooked, and spent much of her time reading about audio circuits, loudspeakers, and synthesisers. After secondary education in Scotland she spent 1973 to 1974 at The University of Lethbridge in Alberta Canada and studied physics, computer science, philosophy, music, drama and English composition. She also repaired their VCS3 synthesiser and so obtained coveted access to the electronic music lab.
Jamie then went on to study electronics at University of Kent in England and graduated in 1977. She also spent three years as a graduate student at Kent where she developed general purpose digital signal processing hardware for Finite Field Transforms. Three years in industry at Standard Telecommunications Laboratories near London working on both integrated optics and speech processing followed.
Appointed Lecturer in the Department of Electronics, University of York in 1983, Senior Lecturer in 1993, and Reader in 1999, she was one of the originators of the music technology course there in 1986. She was appointed to the Chair in Audio Technology in The School of Acoustics and Electronic Engineering at the University of Salford in 2001. Her research interests are in; room acoustics, speech acoustics, diffuser design, audio signal processing and CAD for acoustic design. More recently she has been working on direct signal processing of Super Audio CD (SACD) signals, novel diffuser designs, and spatial audio. When she is not teaching or researching into audio technology she plays the drums and dances, but not at the same time.
In 2004, The Audio Engineering Society presented Prof. Jamie Angus with the Society's Fellowship Award for achievements in research and education in electroacoustics, particularly for pioneering work on sigma-delta modulation. The Audio Engineering Society is the only professional society devoted exclusively to audio technology. The Fellowship Award is given to a member who had rendered conspicuous service or is recognized to have made a valuable contribution to the advancement in or dissemination of knowledge of audio engineering or in the promotion of its application in practice.
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Miscellaneous
Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics
Member of the Audio Engineering Society
Member of ISO WG 25 on diffusion measurementSEEK: Salford Environment for Expertise and Knowledge
