John Usher was born and raised in Devon, England.
In 2001 he received a B.Eng. degree in Electroacoustics from the School of
Acoustics, University of Salford (Manchester, UK). During his undergraduate
program he worked with Bang and Olufsen for a year in Denmark,
developing a multichannel audio upmixer for line-array loudspeakers. From 2001
to 2006, he undertook a Ph.D. at McGill
University, Montreal, where he was supervised by Dr. W.L.
Martens; Prof. W. Woszczyk; Dr. J. Benesty and Prof. A. Bregman. His Ph.D.
thesis was on the theoretical development and subjective evaluation of a new
ambiance extraction upmixer.
Since 2006 he has been chief system architect at
Hearium Labs (AKA Personics); a new high-tech earphone company, where he has
over 5 pending and 15 provisional patents.
Dr. Usher is a member of the Acoustical Society of America;
Audio Engineering Society; IEEE and the National Hearing Conservation
Association.
