The Team

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 in the Illinois Augmented Listening Laboratory 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, acoustic head simulators, and the Mechatronic Acoustic Research System project. Manan has led the Augmented Listening team since 2022.

 

 

 

 

 

Kanad (real)Kanad Sarkar

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.

 

 

 

 

Austin Lu

Austin is a graduate student in the Illinois Augmented Listening Laboratory studying speech enhancement. As an undergraduate, he studied digital twinning, robotics, silent actuation, acoustic sensor networks, binaural audio, sound source localization, multi-modal beamforming, audio super-resolution, and multi-lingual speech processing. He is the team lead for the Mechatronic Acoustic Research System project.

 

 

 

 


Current Students

Neil Ghose, Undergraduate
Neil is working on the spider-bot system for the Mechatronic Acoustic Research System project.

Jasmehar Kocchar, Undergraduate
Jasmehar is working on the Tympan EQ system.

 

 

 


Alumni

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

Arya is a recent graduate who worked on robots and variable reverb panels for the Mechatronic Acoustic Research System project.

 

 

Alex Jin

Alex is an undergraduate who worked on the Tympan EQ system.

 

 

Cindia Hua

Cindia is a recent graduate who worked on the frontend user-interface for the Mechatronic Acoustic Research System project.

 

 

Gabe Wozniak

Gabe is a senior in Computer Engineering who worked on porting the Matrix HAL library to Ubuntu.

 

 

John Pohovey

John is a recent graduate who has worked on the turret for the Mechatronic Acoustic Research System project.

 

 

Ryan Thammakhoune

Ryan worked on a digital twin of the Mechatronic Acoustic Research System project.

 

 

Xinran Yue

Xinran (Leslie) is a recent graduate who worked on the 3D Printed acoustic head simulators.

 

 

Amith Chivukula

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

John is a recent graduate in Computer Engineering. He joined the group in 2019 and specializes in FPGA development.

 

 

Avinash Subramaniam

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

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

Fawaz is a junior in Computer Engineering. He joined the group in 2020 and worked on FGPA development.

 

 

 

Haige Chen

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

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

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

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

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

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.