Associate Professor, University of Huddersfield
Hyunkook Lee is an Associate Professor for Music Technology and the Director of the Centre for Audio & Psychoacoustics Engineering at the University of Huddersfield. He is also a sound engineer with 20 years of experience in acoustic recording and live sound. Lee’s recent research has advanced the understanding of the perceptual mechanisms of vertical stereophonic localisation and image spread as well as the phantom image elevation effect.
This helped develop new 3D microphone array techniques such as ORTF-3D, PCMA-3D, and ESMA-3D, vertical mixing/up-mixing techniques, and a virtual 3D panning method called VHAP. His ongoing research topics include 3D sound perception, capture and reproduction, and virtual acoustics for immersive extended reality applications. From 2006 to 2010, Lee was a senior research engineer in audio R&D at LG Electronics, South Korea. He is a fellow of the AES, and a fellow of the higher education academy.