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:
- Aeroacoustics
- Animal Bioacoustics
- Biomedical Acoustics
- Computational Acoustics
- Engineering Acoustics
- Hearing and Speech Sciences
- Musical Acoustics
- Physical Acoustics
- Psychological and Physiological Acoustics
- Seismo-Acoustics
- Signal Processing in Acoustics
- Sound Studies
- Structural Acoustics and Vibration
- Underwater Acoustics
Aeroacoustics
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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