Sharon Gannot

Sharon Gannot is a professor of engineering at Bar-Ilan University whose work applies statistical signal processing, machine learning and deep learning to speech enhancement with single microphones and microphone arrays. He earned a B.Sc. at the Technion in 1986 and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. at Tel Aviv University in 1995 and 2000, then held a postdoctoral position at KU Leuven in 2001. In 2017 he co-authored a review of multi-microphone speech enhancement and source separation, chaired the IEEE Signal Processing Society's Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing technical committee from 2017 to 2018, and in 2018 co-edited the Wiley book Audio Source Separation and Speech Enhancement. IEEE elevated him to Fellow in 2021, EURASIP gave him its Group Technical Achievement Award in 2022, he was general co-chair of Interspeech 2024, and ISCA named him a Fellow in 2026. He is a Full Professor at Bar-Ilan's Faculty of Engineering, where he is Faculty Vice Dean and heads the Data Science Program.

Now at: Bar-Ilan University
Works: 407
Citations: 10,435
h-index: 48
Badges: Boomerang
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Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 22 October 2026.

Timeline

1986–2003

Degrees, Leuven and the Technion

He earns a B.Sc. at the Technion in 1986 and an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering at Tel Aviv University in 1995 and 2000. After a postdoctoral position in KU Leuven's Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT-SISTA) in 2001, he holds a research and teaching position at the Technion's Faculty of Electrical Engineering from 2002 to 2003.
2010–2013

Co-chairing IWAENC and WASPAA

He serves as general co-chair of the International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC) in Tel Aviv in August 2010. In October 2013, he is general co-chair of the IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA).
2017–2018

A review paper and a Wiley book

In April 2017, he is first author of the invited tutorial paper "A Consolidated Perspective on Multi-Microphone Speech Enhancement and Source Separation" in IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing. He chairs the Audio and Acoustic Signal Processing technical committee of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 2017 to 2018. In 2018, he co-edits the Wiley book Audio Source Separation and Speech Enhancement with Emmanuel Vincent and Tuomas Virtanen.
2021

An IEEE Fellowship

The IEEE confers the grade of Fellow on him as of January 2021, for contributions to acoustical modelling and statistical learning in speech enhancement.
2022

EURASIP Group Technical Achievement Award

EURASIP gives him its 2022 Group Technical Achievement Award for contributions to the theory and practice of microphone array signal processing and statistical learning in speech enhancement through the activities of his research group.
2024

Co-chairing Interspeech 2024

In 2024, he serves as general co-chair of Interspeech with Itshak Lapidot of the Afeka College of Engineering.
2026

An ISCA Fellowship

The International Speech Communication Association names him an ISCA Fellow in 2026, for contributions to multi-microphone speech processing using acoustic modelling and machine learning.
As of October 2026

Professor and Faculty Vice Dean

He is a Full Professor at the Faculty of Engineering at Bar-Ilan University, where he is Faculty Vice Dean and heads the Data Science Program and the joint Electrical Engineering and Music Program. Since 2022, he chairs the Data Science Initiative of the IEEE Signal Processing Society.

Career

Since 2003Bar-Ilan UniversityFull Professor; Faculty Vice Dean; Head of the Data Science Program; Head of the joint Electrical Engineering and Music Program
2002–2003TechnionResearch and teaching position
2001KU LeuvenPostdoctoral researcher