Category Archives: Research

Dr. Lily Wang presents plenary talk at Noise-Con 2020

Dr. Lily Wang was honored to present the opening plenary talk at Noise-Con 2020, originally scheduled for New Orleans in June but eventually presented virtually on November 16, 2020. Her talk focused on ‘The Acoustic Experience in Restaurants‘. Persons who … Continue reading

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“Ten Questions Concerning Well-Being in the Built Environment”

“Ten Questions Concerning Well-Being in the Built Environment” is an open-access paper recently published in Building and Environment as part of the “10 Question initiative”. It collects the views of ten experts, from academia and industry, and offers a range … Continue reading

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Noise Issue of Popular Science

Dr. Lily Wang was quoted in a recent article “It’s not just you: Restaurants have gotten too loud. But there are some fixes”, published in the noise issue of Popular Science! Lily’s research group continues to work on restaurant acoustics; … Continue reading

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January 2020 JASA publication

Dr. Joonhee Lee and Dr. Lily Wang have published an article on “Investigating multidimensional characteristics of noise signals with tones from building mechanical systems and their effects on annoyance” in the January 2020 issue of the Journal of the Acoustical Society … Continue reading

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Kieren Smith, M.S.

Congratulations to Kieren Smith who successfully defended her Master’s thesis research “Explorations of Acoustic Trends in Data Logged in K-12 Classrooms” on April 15, 2019, advised by Dr. Lily Wang! Later that day, Kieren presented a poster at the annual … Continue reading

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‘The End of the Ear-Splitting Dining Room’

Dr. Lily Wang was quoted in this article ‘The End of the Ear-Splitting Dining Room‘ on Eater.com! Lily’s research group has been getting more involved with restaurant acoustics, presenting two papers at the May 2019 ASA meeting in Louisville. Previously … Continue reading

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Development of a model to predict the likelihood of complaints due to assorted tone-in-noise combinations

The May 2018 issue of the  Journal of the Acoustical Society of America includes a paper by Dr. Joonhee Lee and Dr. Lily Wang on “Development of a model to predict the likelihood of complaints due to assorted tone-in-noise combinations”! The article presents … Continue reading

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Anna Catton, M.S.

Congratulations to Anna Catton, who successfully defended her M.S. Thesis “Effects of Reverberation Conditions and Physical Versus Virtual Source Placement on Localization in Virtual Sound Environments” on April 9, 2018, advised by Dr. Lily Wang!  Anna has accepted a position with … Continue reading

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Sungbeen Cho, M.S.

Congratulations to Sungbeen Cho, who successfully defended his M.S. Thesis “Perception of Spatial Impression due to Varying Positions of the Source on Stage” on June 19, 2017, advised by Dr. Lily Wang!  Sungbeen has now moved to Canada, where he is … Continue reading

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How tonality and loudness of noise related to annoyance and task performance

The April 2017 issue of Noise Control Engineering Journal includes a paper by alums Dr. Joonhee Lee and Jennifer Francis with Dr. Lily Wang on “How Tonality and Loudness of Noise Relate to Annoyance and Task Performance”! The article presents results from Joonhee’s PhD work at … Continue reading

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