The Centre for Audio, Acoustics and Vibration is based at UTS Tech Lab. This research facility is designed to promote multidisciplinary collaboration and to facilitate the development of partnerships with industry and universities, both nationally and internationally.
Centre director
EXPERTISE: Expertise in bioacoustics, vibroacoustic metamaterials, and acoustic mechatronics, with a focus on signal processing techniques like time series analysis and pattern recognition, and physical computation for animal communication and acoustic systems.
Director, Centre for Audio, Acoustics and Vibration (CAAV) Associate Professor, School of Electrical, Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, UTS A/Prof Oberst leads research in biogenic dynamics, spanning bioacoustics, complex dynamics, vibro-acoustics, and biogenic materials.
Core members
Associate members
Eva Cheng
Head Of School, Professional Practice And Leadership
Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology
Jamie Kha
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology
Steve Kongni
Research Associate
Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology
Mevis Li
Research Engineer
Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology
Doris Li
Senior Lecturer
Faculty of Design and Society
Zhen (Jeff) Luo
Professor
Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology
Abhishek Ray Mohapatra
Casual Academic
Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology
Quan Nguyen
Lecturer
Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology
Christopher Poulton
Discipline Leader (Physics)
Faculty of Science
Ivan Sili
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology
Mehdi Akbarzadeh
Research Engineer
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
Broughton Caley
Research Engineer
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
Martin Rudorf
Research Engineer
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
Travers Sansom
Research Engineer
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
Konstantin Seiler
Senior Research Fellow
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology
Academic / Industry fellows
Can Nerse
Adjunct Fellow
Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology
Jeffrey Parnell
Adjunct Associate Professor
Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology
Sean Blamires
Adjunct Fellow, Centre for Audio, Acoustics and Vibration
UNSW Sydney
Clifford Shi
Adjunct Industry Fellow, Centre for Audio, Acoustics and Vibration
Senior Marketing & Application Team Leader, STMicroelectronics
International associated institutes
Institute of Fundamentals and Theory in Electrical Engineering (IGTE)
Graz University of Technology (TU Graz), Austria
IGTE research focus: Fundamental phenomena in electrical engineering from field theory over networks to numerical simulations and its practical application to complex technical and medical systems.
Professor Christian Adams
Institute of Fundamentals and Theory in Electrical Engineering (IGTE), TU Graz, Austria
Expertise in acoustics, vibration, and noise with a focus on environmental and traffic noise, reducing noise at the source, noise propagation and noise effects on humans.
Research support team
Qiaoxi Zhu
Acoustics Technologist
Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology
Isabel Tse
International Officer
Faculty of Engineering & Information Technology
Seetha Mahadevan
Senior Technical Support Officer
Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology