Awards

Distinction:

IEEE Fellow for contributions to acoustical modelling and statistical learning in speech enhancement (Class 2021).

Research Award:

  1. The Rector of Bar-Ilan University Research Innovation award for the year 2018.

Teaching Awards:

  1. Bar-Ilan University Outstanding lecturer award for the year 2014.
  2. Bar-Ilan University Outstanding lecturer award for the year 2010.
  3. Tel-Aviv University, Faculty of Engineering, Outstanding teacher award for the year 2000.

Paper Awards:

  1. M. J. Bianco, P. Gerstoft, J. Traer, E. Ozanich, M. A. Roch, S. Gannot, and C.-A. Deledalle, “Machine learning in acoustics: Theory and applications,” The Journal of Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 146, No.5, Nov. 2019. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5133944, The Technical Area Pick for Signal Processing of JASA, 2020.
  2. Adler, O. Schwartz, and S. Gannot, “A weighted multichannel Wiener filter and its decomposition to LCMV beamformer and post-filter for source separation and noise reduction,” in International conference on the science of electrical engineering (ICSEE), Eilat, Israel, Dec. 2018, best paper award.
  3. O. Shwartz, A. Plinge, E. Habets, and S. Gannot, “Blind microphone geometry calibration using one reverberant speech event,” in IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), New Paltz, USA, Oct. 2017, best paper award.
  4. S. E. Chazan, S. Gannot, and J. Goldberger, “A phoneme-based pretraining approach for deep neural network with application to speech enhancement,” in International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Xi'an, China, Sep. 2016, best student paper award.
  5. D. Kounades-Bastian, L. Girin, X. Alameda-Pineda, S. Gannot, and R. P. Horaud, “A variational EM algorithm for the separation of moving sound sources,” in IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA), New Paltz, USA, Oct. 2015, best student paper award.
  6. Y. Dorfan, G. Hazan, and S. Gannot, “Multiple acoustic sources localization using distributed Expectation-Maximization algorithm,” in The 4th Joint Workshop on Hands-free Speech Communication and Microphone Arrays (HSCMA), Nancy, France, May 2014, best student paper award.
  7. E.A.P. Habets, S. Gannot, and I. Cohen, “Late reverberant spectral variance estimation based on a statistical model,” IEEE Signal Processing Letters, vol. 16, no. 9, pp. 770-773, Sep. 2009. The 2014 Signal Processing Society - Signal Processing Letters Best Paper Award.
  8. Markovich-Golan, S. Gannot, and I. Cohen, “A weighted multichannel Wiener filter for multiple sources scenarios,” in The IEEE 27th Convention of IEEE Israel (IEEEI), Eilat, Israel, Nov. 2012, best student paper award.
  9. L. Ehrenberg, S. Gannot, A. Leshem, and E. Zehavi, ”Sensitivity analysis of MVDR and MPDR beamformers,” in The 26th Convention of IEEE Israel (IEEEI), Eilat, Israel, Nov. 2010, pp. 416-420, best student paper award.
  10. S. Markovich-Golan, S. Gannot, and I. Cohen, ”A reduced bandwidth binaural MVDR beamformer,” in The International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC), Tel-Aviv, Israel, Aug. 2010, best student paper award.
  11. T. Dvorkind and S. Gannot, “Speaker localization exploiting spatial-temporal information,” in The International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC), Kyoto, Japan, Sep. 2003, pp. 295-298, distinguished paper.
  12. S. Gannot and M. Moonen, “On the application of the unscented Kalman filter to speech processing,” in The International Workshop on Acoustic Echo and Noise Control (IWAENC), Kyoto, Japan, Sep. 2003, pp. 811, distinguished paper.

Student Awards:

  1. 1999 Excellency scholarship of the students Dean in Tel-Aviv University in memory of Okrein Eliezer and Marko Shaul.
  2. 1997-8 Intel-Dean award for Excellency.
  3. 1996 Wolf prize and scholarship for PhD students.
  4. 1983–1985 President of the Technion annual award for Excellency (3 times).

Industrial Researcher Award:

  1. The 1995 Israeli Defense Forces (IDF), General Staff, Head of Intelligence Branch, Creativity award in memory of Uzi Yairi.