Faculty

All faculty and staff at the University of Texas at Austin who are listed below have supervised graduate student research in at least one technical area of acoustics. Individuals who are associated with more than one technical area are categorized only once according to their primary area. An alphabetical listing follows the categorization by area.

Technical Areas:

  1. Aeroacoustics
  2. Animal Bioacoustics
  3. Biomedical Acoustics
  4. Computational Acoustics
  5. Engineering Acoustics
  6. Hearing and Speech Sciences
  7. Musical Acoustics
  8. Physical Acoustics
  9. Psychological and Physiological Acoustics
  10. Seismo-Acoustics
  11. Signal Processing in Acoustics
  12. Structural Acoustics and Vibration
  13. Underwater Acoustics
Shadowgraph of rocket nozzles.

Shadowgraph of rocket nozzles.

Aeroacoustics

Charles E. Tinney, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

  • Aeroacoustics

 

 

 

Research on Tungara frog calls.

Research on Tungara frog calls.

Animal Bioacoustics

Michael J. Ryan, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Integrative Biology

  • Animal communication
  • Animal bioacoustics

 

Biomedical Acoustics

Stanislav Y. Emelianov, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Biomedical Engineering

  • Biomedical ultrasound

Computational Acoustics

Leszek F. Demkowicz, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

  • Computational acoustics
  • Structural acoustics

Loukas F. Kallivokas, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

  • Computational acoustics
  • Structural acoustics
  • Elastic wave propagation
A shared tailmass tonpilz transducer.

A shared tailmass tonpilz transducer.

Engineering Acoustics

Michael R. Haberman, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Applied Research Laboratories
  • Transducers
  • Ultrasonics
  • Physical acoustics

Neal A. Hall, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering

  • Acoustical MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) transducers
  • Engineering acoustics

Hearing and Speech Sciences

Craig A. Champlin, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

  • Physiological acoustics
  • Otoacoustic emissions

Bharath Chandrasekaran, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

  • Neurophysiology of the auditory system
  • Speech perception

Su-Hyun Jin, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

  • Audiology
  • Speech perception

Chang Liu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders

  • Audiology
  • Speech perception

Rajka Smiljanic, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Linguistics

  • Acoustic phonetics
  • Speech production and perception
  • Speech intelligibility

Harvey M. Sussman, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Linguistics

  • Speech perception and production
Music recording laboratory.

Music recording laboratory.

Musical Acoustics

Bruce W. Pennycook, D.M.A.
Professor
Butler School of Music

  • Digital arts and media
  • Music technology
  • Electroacoustic music composition

Russell F. Pinkston, D.M.A.
Professor
Butler School of Music

  • Digital music synthesis
  • Digital audio signal processing
  • Interactive performance systems
Acoustic cloaking.

Acoustic cloaking.

Physical Acoustics

Andrea Alù, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Acoustic field theory
  • Acoustic cloaking

David T. Blackstock, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Mechanical Engineering

  • Physical acoustics
  • Nonlinear acoustics
  • Biomedical acoustics

Austin M. Gleeson, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Physics

  • Physical acoustics
  • Field theory

Mark F. Hamilton, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

  • Physical acoustics
  • Nonlinear acoustics
  • Biomedical acoustics

Yurii A. Ilinskii, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Applied Research Laboratories

  • Physical acoustics
  • Nonlinear acoustics
  • Bubble dynamics

Preston S. Wilson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

  • Physical acoustics
  • Engineering acoustics
  • Underwater acoustics

Evgenia A. Zabolotskaya, Ph.D.
Senior Research Scientist
Applied Research Laboratories

  • Physical acoustics
  • Nonlinear acoustics
  • Bubble dynamics

Psychological and Physiological Acoustics

Randy L. Diehl, Ph.D.
Dean Professor, College of Liberal Arts
Department of Psychology

  • Speech perception and production
  • Cognition

Nace L. Golding, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Neuroscience

  • Neurophysiology of the auditory system

Dennis McFadden, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology

  • Psychoacoustics
  • Otoacoustic emissions
  • Sex differences

George D. Pollak, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Neuroscience

  • Neurophysiology of the auditory system
  • Bat echolocation

Seismo-Acoustics

Sergey B. Fomel, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Geological Sciences

  • Seismic imaging
  • Wave propagation

Omar N. Ghattas, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Geological Sciences and Institute for Computational Engineering Sciences

  • Regional and global seismic wave propagation inversion problems

Stephen P. Grand, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Geological Sciences

  • Seismic imaging
  • Tomography
  • Regional seismic studies

Charles Kerans, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Geological Sciences

  • Seismic interpretation
  • Seismic stratigraphy

Mrinal K. Sen, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Geological Sciences

  • Seismic wave propagation
  • Applied seismology
  • 4D seismology

Paul L. Stoffa, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus and Senior Research Scientist
Department of Geological Sciences

  • Multichannel seismic acquisition
  • Acoustic and elastic wave propagation

Kenneth H. Stokoe, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Civil, Architectural, and Environmental Engineering

  • Surface acoustic wave testing of geotechnical and pavement systems
  • In-situ shear wave velocity measurement
  • Ground motions associated with blasting and exploration activities

Robert H. Tatham, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Geological Sciences

  • Interpretation and analysis of multi-component seismic data
  • P-wave and S-wave data analysis

Carlos Torres-Verdin, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering

  • Reflection seismology
  • Subsurface acoustic/elastic propagation
  • Borehole acoustics
  • Elastic wave propagation in porous media
  • Interaction of elastic and electromagnetic waves in porous media
  • Interaction of fluid flow with elastic waves in porous media
Field-level fusion of multiple arrays.

Field-level fusion of multiple arrays.

Signal Processing in Acoustics

Brian L. Evans, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering

  • Sonar signal processing
  • Underwater acoustic communications

Brian LaCour, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Applied Research Laboratories

  • Acoustic signal processing
  • Multisensor fusion
  • Sonar Simulation

Structural Acoustics and Vibration

Jeffrey K. Bennighof, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

  • Noise and vibration analysis of vehicles
Sound propagation in water over sediment.

Sound propagation in water over sediment.

Underwater Acoustics

Nicholas P. Chotiros, Ph.D.
Research Scientist
Applied Research Laboratories

  • Underwater acoustics

James M. Gelb, Ph.D.
Research Scientist and Lecturer
Applied Research Laboratories
Department of Mechanical Engineering

  • Sonar signal and information processing
  • Musical acoustics
Marcia J. Isakson, Ph.D.
Research Associate and Lecturer
Applied Research Laboratories
Department of Mechanical Engineering
  • Sediment acoustics
  • Propagation and scattering
  • Computational acoustics

David P. Knobles, Ph.D.
Applied Research Laboratories

  • Underwater acoustics
  • Acoustical propagation and inversion

Alphabetical Order