Brett Swanson received a BE (Electrical) from UNSW in 1985, and a PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2008 for the thesis “Pitch perception with cochlear implants”. He joined Cochlear Ltd in 1992and led the firmware development for the company’s first sound processor that utilized digital signal processing. He is presently Principal Research Scientist, Sound Coding. He has an h-index of 14, and 9 granted patents. Hepresented similar tutorials at ICASSP 2015 and APSIPA 2020.