Dr. Balázs Bank is an associate professor at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He received his M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary in 2000, and in 2006, respectively. In the academic year 1999/2000 he was with the Acoustics Laboratory at Helsinki University of Technology, Finland. From 2000 to 2006 he was a Ph.D. student and research assistant at Budapest University of Technology and Economics. In 2007 he returned to the Acoustics Lab of Helsinki University of Technology for a year, and in 2008 he was with the Verona University, Italy. Since 2009 he is with the Budapest University of Technology and Economics. He is a member of the AES and the IEEE. From 2013 to 2016 he was an Associate Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Letters, currently he is an Associate Editor of IEEE Signal Processing Magazine. His research interests include physics-based sound synthesis, filter design for audio applications, and loudspeaker and room equalization.