Susanto Rahardja is a Professor of Infocomm Technology Cluster at the Singapore Institute of Technology. His research activities and interests are in multimedia, signal processing, wireless communications, discrete transforms, machine learning and signal processing algorithms and implementation. He contributed to the development of a series of audio compression technologies such as Audio Video Standards AVS-L, AVS-2 and ISO/IEC 14496-3:2005/Amd.2:2006, ISO/IEC 14496-3:2005/Amd.3:2006 in which some have been licensed worldwide. Dr Rahardja has published more than 300 papers and has been granted more than 70 patents worldwide out of which 15 are US patents.
Professor Rahardja was past Associate Editors of IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing and IEEE Transactions on Multimedia, past Senior Editor of the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing, and is currently serving as Associate Editors for the Elsevier Journal of Visual Communication and Image Representation, IEEE Transactions on Multimedia and IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics. He was the Conference Chair of 5th ACM SIGGRAPHASIA in 2012 and APSIPA 2nd Summit and Conference in 2010 and 2018 as well as other conferences in ACM, SPIE and IEEE. Dr Rahardja is a recipient of several honors including the IEE Hartree Premium Award, the Tan Kah Kee Young Inventors’ Open Category Gold award, the Singapore National Technology Award, A*STAR Most Inspiring Mentor Award, Finalist of the 2010 World Technology & Summit Award, the Nokia Foundation Visiting Professor Award, the ACM Recognition of Service Award and the Thousand Talent Plan of People’s Republic of China.
Professor Rahardja graduated with a B.Eng from National University of Singapore, the M.Eng. and Ph.D. degrees all in Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He attended the Stanford Executive Programme at the Graduate School of Business in Stanford University, USA. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Engineering, Singapore.