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. Sound Studies
  13. Structural Acoustics and Vibration
  14. Underwater Acoustics

Aeroacoustics

Shadowgraph of rocket nozzles.

Shadowgraph of rocket nozzles.

Charles E. Tinney, Ph.D.
Research Associate
Applied Research Laboratories
Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics

  • Supersonic and subsonic jet aeroacoustics
  • Rocket and rotor noise

Animal Bioacoustics

Research on Tungara frog calls.

Research on Tungara frog calls.

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

  • Animal communication
  • Animal bioacoustics

Biomedical Acoustics

Tyrone M. Porter, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Biomedical Engineering

  • Brain applications of ultrasound
  • Photoacoustics
  • Acoustic cavitation

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

Engineering Acoustics

A shared tailmass tonpilz transducer.

A shared tailmass tonpilz transducer.

Michael R. Haberman, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Mechanical Engineering

  • Transducers
  • Ultrasonics
  • Physical acoustics

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

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

Salvatore Salamone, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering

  • Structural health monitoring
  • Nondestructive evaluation
  • Elastic wave propagation

Hearing and Speech Sciences

Julia Campbell, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

  • Tinnitus
  • Hearing loss
  • Sensory cortical plasticity

Craig A. Champlin, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

  • Physiological acoustics
  • Otoacoustic emissions

Liberty S. Hamilton, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences
Department of Neurology

  • Neurophysiology of the auditory system
  • Speech perception and production
  • Neural network models of auditory perception

Rosemary A. Lester-Smith, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

  • Neurological voice disorders
  • Clinical assessment and treatment of voice
  • Auditory-motor control of voice

Chang Liu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

  • Audiology
  • Speech perception

Fernando Llanos, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Linguistics

  • Neurolinguistics
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Speech perception

Rajka Smiljanic, Ph.D.
Professor
Department of Linguistics

  • Acoustic phonetics
  • Speech production and perception
  • Speech intelligibility

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

  • Speech perception and production

Musical Acoustics


Physical Acoustics

Acoustic cloaking.

Acoustic cloaking.

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

  • Physical acoustics
  • Nonlinear acoustics
  • Biomedical acoustics

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

  • Physical acoustics
  • Engineering acoustics
  • Underwater acoustics

Psychological and Physiological Acoustics

Randy L. Diehl, Ph.D.
Professor Emeritus
Department of Psychology

  • Speech perception and production
  • Cognition

Nace L. Golding, Ph.D.
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
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

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

Signal Processing in Acoustics

Field-level fusion of multiple arrays.

Field-level fusion of multiple arrays.

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

  • Sonar signal processing
  • Underwater acoustic communications

David Harwath, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science

  • Automatic speech recognition and spoken language processing
  • Machine learning for speech and audio signals
  • Multimodal machine learning

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

  • Acoustic signal processing
  • Multisensor fusion
  • Sonar Simulation

Sound Studies

Marina L. Peterson, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Anthropology

  • Anthropology of sound
  • Sensory ethnography

Structural Acoustics and Vibration


Underwater Acoustics

Sound propagation in water over sediment.

Sound propagation in water over sediment.

Megan S. Ballard. Ph.D.
Research Scientist and Lecturer
Applied Research Laboratories

  • Acoustic propagation modeling
  • Geoacoustic inversion
  • Sediment 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 Scientist and Lecturer
Applied Research Laboratories
Department of Mechanical Engineering

  • Sediment acoustics
  • Propagation and scattering
  • Computational acoustics

Jason D. Sagers, Ph.D.
Research Associate and Lecturer
Applied Research Laboratories
Department of Mechanical Engineering

  • Underwater acoustic signal processing
  • Geoacoustic inversion
  • Propagation modeling

Alphabetical Order

Megan S. Ballard
Julia Campbell
Craig A. Champlin
Leszek F. Demkowicz
Randy L. Diehl
Brian L. Evans
Sergey B. Fomel
James M. Gelb
Omar N. Ghattas
Nace L. Golding
Stephen P. Grand
Michael R. Haberman
Neal A. Hall
Liberty S. Hamilton
Mark F. Hamilton
David Harwath
Marcia J. Isakson
Loukas F. Kallivokas
Charles Kerans
Brian R. La Cour
Rosemary A. Lester-Smith
Chang Liu
Fernando Llanos
Dennis McFadden
Marina L. Peterson
George D. Pollak
Tyrone M. Porter
Michael J. Ryan
Jason D. Sagers
Salvatore Salamone
Mrinal K. Sen
Rajka Smiljanic
Paul L. Stoffa
Kenneth H. Stokoe
Harvey M. Sussman
Charles E. Tinney
Carlos Torres-Verdin
Preston S. Wilson