Professor Andy Singer, Faculty Advisor
Professor Singer is the Dean of Engineering at Stony Brook University. He has co-founded two communication technology companies, Intersymbol Communications in 2007 and OceanComm in 2014, and is involved with several entrepreneurship-oriented courses and programs.
Ryan M. Corey, Faculty Advisor
Ryan is a professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Illinois Chicago, an adjunct professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, and holds a joint appointment at the Discovery Partners Institute in Chicago. A hearing aid user since he was a teenager, Ryan is studying ambitious new technologies to help people hear better in noisy environments. Ryan has lead the Augmented Listening team from 2015-2022. He is the recipient of the National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship, the Microsoft Research Dissertation Grant, and the Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellowship.
Manan Mittal
Manan is a graduate student studying spatial acoustic signal processing. Since joining the team in 2019, he has contributed to an FPGA-based embedded microphone array platform, acoustic source localization systems, acoustic sensor network systems, source separation systems, and acoustic head simulators. Manan led the Augmented Listening team from 2022-2023.
Kanad is a graduate student in Electrical Engineering. He joined the group in 2020 and has worked on hardware design, embedded software, and unconventional sound capture technologies. He is the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, for his work on deformable microphone arrays and manifold learning.
Alumni
Leo Lin, Undergraduate
Leo worked on motorizing the 3D printed dummy head.
Stuti Bhatia, Undergraduate
Stuti worked on the spider-bot system for the Mechatronic Acoustic Research System project.
Austin Lu, Graduate
Austin led the Mechatronic Acoustic Research System project from 2022-2025, and researched audio/acoustic signal processing systems since 2021.
Neil Ghose, Undergraduate
Neil worked on the spider-bot system for the Mechatronic Acoustic Research System project.
Ed Drazkiewicz, Undergraduate
Ed designed 3D printed microphone arrays for sound field interpolation and audio experiments.
Abhi Kadiam, Undergraduate
Abhi worked on the spider-bot system for the Mechatronic Acoustic Research System project.
Jasmehar Kocchar, Undergraduate
Jasmehar worked on the Tympan EQ system.
Ethan Moore, Undergraduate
Ethan is a recent graduate who contributed extensively to the Mechatronic Acoustic Research System project, and developed the spider bot system, silent motors, and many 3D printed objects for the turret and related projects.
Nathan Moskal, Undergraduate
Nathan was a member of the Augmented Listening Platform FPGA team.
Ben Wu, Undergraduate
Ben was a member of the Bluetooth LE audio team.
Frey Zhao, Undergraduate
Frey was a member of the Bluetooth LE audio team.
Han Xu, Graduate
Han was a member of the Augmented Listening Platform FPGA team.
Zhichao Jiang, Undergraduate
Zhichao was a member of the Augmented Listening Platform FPGA team.
Bob Jin, Undergraduate
Bob worked on a camera positioning system for the Mechatronic Acoustic Research System project.
Abhinav Garg, Undergraduate
Abhinav worked on motorized turrets for the acoustic head simulators.
Arya Nallanthighall, Undergraduate
Arya is a recent graduate who worked on robots and variable reverb panels for the Mechatronic Acoustic Research System project.
Alex Jin, Undergraduate
Alex is an undergraduate who worked on the Tympan EQ system.
Cindia Hua, Undergraduate
Cindia is a recent graduate who worked on the frontend user-interface for the Mechatronic Acoustic Research System project.
Gabe Wozniak, Undergraduate
Gabe is a senior in Computer Engineering who worked on porting the Matrix HAL library to Ubuntu.
John Pohovey, Undergraduate
John is a recent graduate who has worked on the turret for the Mechatronic Acoustic Research System project.
Ryan Thammakhoune, Undergraduate
Ryan worked on a digital twin of the Mechatronic Acoustic Research System project.
Xinran Yue, Undergraduate
Xinran (Leslie) is a recent graduate who worked on the 3D Printed acoustic head simulators.
Amith Chivukula, Undergraduate
Amith is a recent graduate in Electrical Engineering. He joined the group in 2020 and worked on signal processing algorithms for large-scale microphone arrays.
John Hammond, Undergraduate
John is a recent graduate in Computer Engineering. He joined the group in 2019 and specializes in FPGA development.
Avinash Subramaniam, Undergraduate
Avinash is a recent graduate in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He joined the group in 2019 and has worked on acoustic echo cancellation and speech separation.
Bryce Tharp, Undergraduate
Bryce is a recent graduate in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He joined the group in 2018 and has worked on wearable-array prototyping, hardware design, and acoustic source localization.
Fawaz Tirmizi, Undergraduate
Fawaz is a junior in Computer Engineering. He joined the group in 2020 and worked on FGPA development.
Haige Chen, Undergraduate
Haige is a recent graduate in Electrical and Computer Engineering. He worked with the group from 2018 to 2019 developing FGPA-based audio signal processing applications. He is now a graduate student in Electrical Engineering at Georgia Tech.
Uriah Jones, Undergraduate
Uriah is a recent graduate in Industrial Design. He specializes in the design of consumer audio devices, especially loudspeakers. Uriah worked worked with the group from 2018 to 2020 and developed several prototypes for listening devices and loudspeakers.
Sooraj Kumar, Undergraduate
Sooraj is a recent graduate in Electrical and Computer Engineering. In 2019, he completed his senior thesis on novel methods for localization and tracking of moving sound sources.
JJ Martinez-Villalba, Undergraduate
JJ is a recent graduate in Computer Engineering at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and is now a software engineer at OceanComm. He worked with the team from 2017 to 2019 and specialized in embedded systems programming, combining software design with signal processing to develop a wearable microphone array system to perform beamforming in real time. JJ enjoys swimming and taking adventurous hikes to stay in shape, and loves building electronics with his friends!
Ben Stoehr, Undergraduate
Ben is a recent graduate in Computer Science. He worked with the group in 2019 to investigate novel applications of augmented listening. Ben is now a software engineer at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange.
Naoki Tsuda, Undergraduate
Naoki is a recent graduate of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in Aerospace Engineering with minors in Music and Electrical Engineering and is now a graduate student in Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He worked with the group from 2017 to 2018 on large microphone array data sets, source separation, and real-time beamforming. His hobbies include playing basketball, playing the electric bass, and DJing. Some of his favorite courses at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign were Electronic Music Synthesis taught by Professor Haken, Audio Engineering taught by Professor Allen, Electronic Music Techniques I & II taught by Professor Fieldsteel, and Seminar in Music Composition and Theory taught by Professor Scaletti.