Acoustic Society of America Best Student Paper Award to Michael Ren, ECE PhD Student

A paper by ECE PhD student Gang (Michael) Ren entitled "Time-frequency test signal synthesis for acoustic measurements during music concerts" recently won an Acoustic Society of America Best Student Paper Award in Architectural Acoustics. Ren presented the paper at the Fall 2009 meeting of the Acoustical Society of America held in San Antonio, Texas October 26-30.

The paper presents a method for burying imperceptible acoustic test signals in live music performances to enable the acoustic characterization of an occupied performance space, which can be very different than an empty auditorium. The research was conducted with Ren's advisors, Mark Bocko and Dave Headlam, and by Eastman School doctoral student Justin Lundberg.