Ning Xiang

Ning Xiang
Born Ning Xiang
TianJin, China
Citizenship American
Nationality American (Chinese)
Fields Acoustics
Electrical engineering
Institutions HEAD acoustics GmbH, Herzogenrath, Germany
Fraunhofer Institut fuer Bauphysik, Stuttgart Germany
National Center for Physical Acoustics (NCPA), University of Mississippi
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Alma mater Tianjin University (Tianjin, China
Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Doctoral advisor Jens Blauert
Doctoral students Yun Jing
Alexander Bockman
Philip Robinson
Jonathan Botts
Cameron Fackler
Known for Acoustics
Architectural Acoustics, and Signal Processing in Acoustics
Influenced by Leo Beranek, Manfred R. Schroeder, Jens Blauert
Notable awards Wallace Clement Sabine Medal (2014)

Ning Xiang is an American-Chinese acoustics expert, former Research Engineer of HEAD acoustics, and former Research Scientist of Fraunhofer Institut fuer Bauphysik, and of National Center for Physical Acoustics (NCPA), and now Director, Graduate Program in Architectural Acoustics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He authored a textbook Acoustics for Engineers (Springer) with Jens Blauert and edited a Book Acoustics, Information, and Communication (Springer) with Gerhard Sessler, a Memorial Volume in Honor of Manfred R. Schroeder in 2015. He is an expert in architectural acoustics, and received Wallace Clement Sabine Medal from the Acoustical Society of America in 2014.[1]

Biography

Xiang was born in TianJin, China to Yang Xiang, a high school principle. He received his undergraduate education studying communication engineering from Tianjin University in Tianjin, China and later received a doctorate in engineering after studying acoustics and communication engineering under Jens Blauert from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

Ning Xiang is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics, United Kingdom. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. Furthermore, he is well known for his over 280 publications in journals, magazines and conference proceedings. With Jens Blauert he developed binaural scale-modeling since 1991. He developed a new method using nonlinear regression for estimating reverberation times (1995). With James Sabatier he successfully applied acoustic-to-seismic coupling in landmine detection. With Manfred R. Schroeder he developed a synchronous dual channel measurement method using reciprocal maximum-length sequences (2003). He is a promoter of Bayesian analysis in acoustics. Ning Xiang was visiting professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) in June 2013

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