Ville Pulkki

Ville Topias Pulkki (born May 10, 1969) is a Finnish acoustics researcher and professor at Aalto University 2015–. which was formalized during his Doctoral thesis research (1994-2001). Initially, open-access VBAP implementations were provided for C language, Max/MSP, CSound and PureData platforms (http://legacy.spa.aalto.fi/software/vbap/) and a have attracted significant interest within the audio research and academic community. The VBAP method was subsequently adopted by many widely used 3D multi-channel formats, systems and platforms (e.g. the ISO MPEG-H standard / DTS / Sony Playstation VR / 3GPP IVAS). After completing his PhD in 2001, Pulkki and his co-workers at the Acoustics Laboratory developed the DirAC method for spatial audio coding and synthesis .

Pulkki was appointed docent of spatial sound at Aalto University in 2007–2012, an assistant professor in 2012–2015 and a professor in 2015.