Dr. Neil Birkett, Ph.D.,
President Maplebrook Consulting Inc.

Dr. Birkett has over 20 years of industry and academic experience covering a wide range of subject areas from wireless to DSP to acoustic echo cancellation. Dr. Birkett received his Ph.D. from the Department of Systems and Computer Engineering at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada 1997 specializing in non-linear adaptive filtering for speech processing and acoustic echo cancellation. His main interests are in wireless system design, RF subsystem design including PLL synthesizers and block converters covering DC to L-band, and adaptive linear and nonlinear algorithm development.  View Dr. Birkett's resume.

Dr. Jeff Lariviere, Ph.D.,
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Dr. Lariviere holds a Ph.D. degree with significant experience in adaptive processing with application to noise reduction, echo cancellation and speech recognition, real-time low-level DSP programming, algorithmic development for data classification and wireless communication techniques.  Dr. Lariviere’s dissertation (Sep. 2000) focuses on transform domain techniques for echo cancellation and noise reduction.  View Dr. Lariviere's resume.

Dr. Trevor Yensen, Ph.D.,
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Dr. Yensen earned a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada in 2003 with significant academic experience in Voice over IP (VoIP) including acoustic echo cancellation for multi-channel conferences, real-time playout delay scheduling for audio packets and spatialization of acoustic signals from single to multiple channels.  Dr. Yensen has over 6 years of industry experience which includes linear and non-linear digital signal processing algorithm design, real-time low-level DSP programming, audio codecs, wireless communications, end-to-end analog and digital chip performance simulations, various networking protocols and acoustic echo cancellation.  View Dr. Yensen's resume.

Mr. Chandra Singh,
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Chandra M Singh has over 13 years of industry experience covering a range of subject areas from synchronization & detection in digital communication to exploration of DSP architectures and their VLSI implementation. Chandra M Singh received his M.Tech. Degree in Electronics Engineering from the Institute of Technology (BHU), Varanasi, India 1996 specializing in Signal Processing for Communications. His main interests are in wireless system design, transmission schemes and algorithm design for digital receivers, programmable architectures with low power consumption and reconfigurable programmable architectures.