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John Vanderkooy was born in The Netherlands in 1941, but received all of his education in Canada, with a B. Eng. degree in engineering physics in 1963 and Ph.D. in physics in 1967, both from McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario. For some years he followed his doctoral interests in low- temperature physics of metals at the University of Waterloo, where he is currently a professor of physics. However, since the late 1970s, his research interests have been mainly in audio and electroacoustics.
A fellow of the AES and a member of the IEEE, Dr. Vanderkooy has contributed a variety of papers at conventions and to the Journal. Together with his colleague Stanley Lipshitz and a number of graduate and undergraduate students, they formed the Audio Research Group at the University of Waterloo.
Dr. Vanderkooy's current interests are digital audio signal processing, measurement of transfer functions with maximum-length sequences, transducers, diffraction of loudspeaker cabinet edges, and most recently sub-surface analysis techniques using maximum-length sequences.