Past members (2021-)
Luke Simpson
BE Final Year Project
Development of a smart system to identify, locate, and monitor the usage of equipment in noisy workshops
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka
Jack Towers
BE Final Year Project
Development of a smart system to identify, locate, and monitor the usage of equipment in noisy workshops
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka
Dhruv Jagmohan
BE Final Year Project
Accuracy of acoustic virtual reality for replicating speech perception in real world
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka
Chante de Villiers
BE Final Year Project
Mobile based tabletop system for hearing impaired listeners
Supervisor: Justine Hui
Gabby Sumner
BE Final Year Project
Mobile based tabletop system for hearing impaired listeners
Supervisor: Justine Hui
Hong Kit Li
BE Final Year Project
Accuracy of acoustic virtual reality for replicating speech perception in real world
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka
Dave Walton
BE Final Year Project
Exploring efficient machine learning algorithm for conservation-centric acoustic bird monitoring
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka
Matthew Liggett
BE Final Year Project
Development of an e-textile based wearable for sonic interaction design
Supervisor: Justine Hui
Matthew Eccleshall
BE Final Year Project
Development of an e-textile based wearable for sonic interaction design
Supervisor: Justine Hui
Zengkun Liu
PhD student
Zengkun’s PhD research focuses on knowledge graph construction and knowledge-data fusion algorithms for intelligent maintenance automation under the supervision of Associate Professor Kean AW and Dr. Justine Hui.
Alyssa D’Souza
Master Student
Exploring the occurrence of the Lombard effect using Simulation-Based Prediction Modelling
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka
Xandra Xiyu Song
Visiting research fellow
PhD, Associate Researcher (Guilin University of Electronic Technology, GUET)
During her master’s degree, she was engaged in research on Optical Imaging and Target Positioning; during her doctoral degree, she was engaged in research on Key Technologies of Room Geometry Acoustic Reconstruction and Indoor Acoustic Localization. She was appointed as Assistant Researcher in 2018 and Associate Researcher in 2021. In 2024, visiting scholar at the University of Auckland, New Zealand (funded by China Scholarship Council).
Research
Her research topics include: array sound source localization, spatial sound field reconstruction and indoor and outdoor abnormal sound event identification. In the past five years, she has been teaching undergraduate courses, such as Signals and Systems, Principle of Communication, Spread Spectrum Communication, Digital Signal Processing, and Specialized English for Electronic Information Engineering in the School of Information and Communication, GUET. In the meantime, she led master students to conduct basic research on acoustic signal processing, published 20 academic papers, and obtained 9 granted patents for invention.
Jessica Robinson
BE Final Year Project
Real-time acoustic environment simulation to improve vocalist performance
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka, Catherine Watson (Department of Electrical, Software and Computer Engineering)
Nishan Shrestha
BE Final Year Project
Real-time acoustic environment simulation to improve vocalist performance
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka, Catherine Watson (Department of Electrical, Software and Computer Engineering)
Jack Budge
BE Final Year Project
Measuring the acoustic properties of wall absorbers after they have been installed in a room
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka
Oscar Lin
BE Final Year Project
Measuring the acoustic properties of wall absorbers after they have been installed in a room
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka
Jessica Robinson
BE Final Year Project
Real-time acoustic environment simulation to improve vocalist performance
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka, Catherine Watson (Department of Electrical, Software and Computer Engineering)
Alice Oh
BE Final Year Project
Development of a low-cost tabletop system for hearing aid users
Supervisor: Justine Hui
Nikitta Jam
BE Final Year Project
Development of a low-cost tabletop system for hearing aid users
Supervisor: Justine Hui
Charlene Lo
BE(Hons) (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Charlene completed her B.E. in mechatronics engineering in 2020 at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. She did her final year project in 2020 and masters in 2021-2022 both under the supervision of Dr Yusuke Hioka and Dr Justine Hui.
BE Final Year Project
Speech perception in simulated real-world acoustic environments with virtual reality
ME Project
Designing real-time target-adaptive speech masking system
Kenneth Wu
BE Final Year Project
Evaluation of audio virtual reality for replicating speech perception in real-world
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka
Seo In Park
BE(Hons) (University of Auckland, New Zealand)
Seo In received her B.E. in mechatronics engineering in 2019 from the University of Auckland, New Zealand. From 2020 to 2021, she is studying for her masters in mechatronics engineering, specialising in acoustic signal processing and data analysis under the supervision of Dr Yusuke Hioka.
ME Project
Sound source localisation using UAVs
Urim Chae
BE Final Year Project
Developing an audio sensory device that allows blind people to “see”
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka, Kevin Wang (Department of Electrical, Software and Computer Engineering)
Dylan Townsend
BE Final Year Project
Neural correlates of speech in multi-modal virtual reality
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka, Justine Hui
Thomas Lovelock
BE Final Year Project
Neural correlates of speech in multi-modal virtual reality
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka, Justine Hui
Jemima Prins
BE Final Year Project
Design of audio recording unit for localising kiwi birds from their calls
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka
Yameizhen Li
BE Final Year Project
Algorithm design for clean audio recording with drones using aeroacoustics modelling
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka
Okan Aldikacti
BE Final Year Project
Creating synthesised voices from speech samples found on the internet
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka
Daniel Clark
BE Final Year Project
Creating synthesised voices from speech samples found on the internet
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka
Hao Jia
BE Final Year Project
Refining an acoustic VR simulator of how conversation noise behaves in a room
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka
Kalani Roberts Brothers
BE Final Year Project
Refining an acoustic VR simulator of how conversation noise behaves in a room
Supervisor: Yusuke Hioka