Reinhold Haeb-Umbach is a professor with the University of Paderborn, Germany. His main research interests are in the fields of statistical signal processing and pattern recognition, with applications to speech enhancement, acoustic beamforming and source separation, as well as automatic speech recognition. After having worked in industrial research laboratories for more than 10 years he joined academia as a full professor of Communications Engineering in 2001. He has published more than 150 papers in peer reviewed journals and conferences.