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Communication beyond speech with hearing loss and hearing devices<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen<\/strong><\/p>\n Prof. Deniz Ba\u015fkent is a lucky electrical and biomedical engineer, with a touch of robotics education, working as a professor at the University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen. Working at an academic hospital as a university professor with technical background provides the best of both academic and medical care worlds. Taking advantage of these opportunities, Deniz, together with her team and collaborators, have conducted research on a wide range of areas related to hearing and speech perception. Deniz\u2019s earlier projects had focused on advantages and limitations of using cognitive compensation for enhancing speech perception by individuals with hearing loss and users of hearing devices. Observing that hearing devices traditionally aim to maximize speech comprehension, Deniz\u2019s relatively recent research focuses on other areas than speech, such as perception of voice cues and vocal emotions, including child and adult users of devices. This research has produced some expected and unexpected findings, which I will present at this keynote lecture.<\/p>\n Deniz is also interested in producing tools that could be used in clinics, such as easy-to use tests for measuring vocal emotions, automated hearing tests that can be used also outside the clinic, or even using humanoid robots-delivered hearing tests for children. For rehabilitation, Deniz and her team has investigated music training techniques for potential benefits in better hearing.<\/p>\n Deniz has published many journal articles, even though this is not a metric by itself, Deniz is in favor of scientific knowledge being disseminated. As a result of this interest, Deniz and her colleagues have shared many datasets publicly and also organized several outreach events, including a recent robots hackathon for children. Deniz is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America and a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”|auto|18px|auto||” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”#e0e0e0″ box_shadow_style=”preset3″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_team_member image_url=”https:\/\/acoustics27.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/KELLY-J.-BENOIT-BIRD.png” _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” width=”51%” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”|104px||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_toggle title=”KELLY J. 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Kelly has published nearly 100 scientific papers, advancing technologies to make the invisible lives of ocean animals both measurable and mesmerizing and changing our understanding of the pelagic realm in four dimensions.<\/p>\n Kelly received a B.S. in Aquatic Ecology from Brown University and a Ph.D. in Zoology from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. She was Professor of Oceanography at Oregon State University before moving to MBARI. Dr. Benoit-Bird is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, the Association for the Studies of Limnology and Oceanography, and the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”|auto|18px|auto||” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”#e0e0e0″ box_shadow_style=”preset3″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_team_member image_url=”https:\/\/acoustics27.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/KARL-JANSSENS.png” _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” width=”51%” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”|104px||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_toggle title=”KARL JANSSENS” _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” title_text_color=”#E02B20″ width=”100%” custom_margin=”29px|||||” border_color_all=”#E02B20″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n The Evolution of Transfer Path Analysis (TPA) in Automotive Sound Engineering Division RTD manager – Siemens Industry Software NV, Interleuvenlaan 68, 3001 Heverlee, Belgium<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. Karl Janssens received his engineering diploma in 1995 and his PhD degree in 1999 from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven), Belgium. His doctoral research, supported by an FWO scholarship, focused on modeling flow and heat transfer in ventilated spaces to enhance thermal comfort. Following a post-doctoral period at KU Leuven, he joined LMS International in 2001, a KU Leuven spin-off that was subsequently acquired by Siemens in 2013.<\/p>\n From 2001 to 2014, he served as a research engineer and project leader in various Flemish and EU-funded research projects. During this period, he developed extensive expertise in diverse physical testing technology domains, including transfer path analysis, sound quality engineering, sound source localization, rotating machinery analysis and acoustic control. His research contributed to 5 patent applications and over 300 publications.<\/p>\n Since 2014, he is RTD (Research and Technology Development) division manager within the Simulation and Testing Solutions department of Siemens Digital Industries. Leading a team of 25 engineers, he is responsible for driving technological innovation in physical testing. Under his guidance, the team’s work encompasses core areas such as structural dynamics, noise and vibration testing, durability testing and vibration control, with a strong focus on automotive, aerospace and space industry applications. In close collaboration with research institutions and universities, the team actively explores cutting-edge technologies such as model-based system testing, artificial intelligence, and virtual and augmented reality. The ultimate goal is to validate the technological innovations on industrial setups with real-world complexity, in cooperation with industrial end-users.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_toggle][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][et_pb_row column_structure=”1_4,3_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”|auto|18px|auto||” border_width_all=”1px” border_color_all=”#e0e0e0″ box_shadow_style=”preset3″ global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”1_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_team_member image_url=”https:\/\/acoustics27.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/TAPIO_LOKKI.png” _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” width=”51%” module_alignment=”center” custom_margin=”|104px||||” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_team_member][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”3_4″ _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_toggle title=”TAPIO LOKKI” _builder_version=”4.27.6″ _module_preset=”default” title_text_color=”#E02B20″ width=”100%” custom_margin=”29px|||||” border_color_all=”#E02B20″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n Concert hall acoustics beyond ISO 3382-1<\/strong><\/em> At present Dr. Lokki is a Professor and a Head of the department with the Department of Information and Communications Engineering at Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering. The passion of Prof. Lokki is to understand how rooms modify sound we hear. To pursue the encompassing understanding of room acoustics, his team is investigating auralization, spatial sound reproduction, binaural technology, and novel objective and subjective evaluation methods. Particularly, the interest has been in concert halls, in which the team has developed new measurement techniques, analysis methods for spatial impulse responses, and sensory evaluation methods to understand the perceptual differences between concert halls. Furthermore, Prof. Lokki has been continuing a long-term research on augmented reality audio and novel hearing protection devices. Professor Lokki’s recent novel research area is bio-based porous absorption materials.<\/p>\n Prof. Lokki has published over 100 journal articles and over 200 conference papers. He has been awarded by the International Commission of Acoustics (ICA Early Career Award 2013), the Audio Engineering Society (Fellow 2017), the Academy of Finland Award on social impact (2011). 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Kritzer Faculty Scholar – Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n Kathryn (Katie) Matlack is an Associate Professor and Richard W. Kritzer Faculty Scholar in the Department of Mechanical Science and Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, where she leads the Wave Propagation and Metamaterials laboratory. Prior, she received her bachelor\u2019s degree in mechanical engineering from MIT, her PhD from Georgia Tech, and was an ETH Postdoctoral Fellow at ETH Zurich. Her expertise is in wave propagation and dynamic response of complex materials, including phononic materials, fluid metamaterial interaction, mechanical metamaterials, and nondestructive evaluation with acoustics and ultrasonics. 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<\/em><\/strong>This keynote will provide a historical overview of Transfer Path Analysis (TPA) for automotive sound engineering, tracing its evolution from an experimental troubleshooting method for late-stage physical prototypes to a component-based approach for virtual prototype assembly early in the design process.<\/em><\/p>\n
Professor and Head of the Department, Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering
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Prof. Tapio Lokki has studied acoustics, audio signal processing, and computer science at the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) and received an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1997 and a D.Sc.(Tech.) degree in computer science and engineering in 2002. Then he continued at TKK as a lecturing researcher teaching virtual reality and making research on virtual auditory environments. In 2012, he was appointed as Associate Professor. In 2008, he received ERC Starting Grant in the first ERC call.<\/p>\n