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Elias Zea Marcano

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Assistant professor


About me

I am an assistant professor of engineering acoustics at The Marcus Wallenberg Laboratory for Sound and Vibration Research (MWL). My research interests span theoretical and experimental methods, focusing on sparse signal processing, harmonic analysis, and data-driven methods.

I serve as a reviewer in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, The Journal of Sound and Vibration, Applied Acoustics, EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and Signal, Image, and Video Processing. I am currently a Guest Editor in the Journal of Theoretical and Computational Acoustics.

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Ongoing research

  • Sparse representations of wavefields in unified space-time

  • Sound absorption quantification with deep learning

  • Aeroacoustics applications to axial fans and physiological flows

  • Sustainable aviation with applications to noise, air-traffic management, and drones

The Swedish Research Council and the European Commission financially support my research.

Selected publications

  1. E. Zea, M. Laudato, and J. Andén (2024), "A continuous boostlet transform for acoustic waves in space-time," arXiv:2403.11362.
  2. E. Zea et al. (2023), "Sound absorption estimation of finite porous samples with deep residual learning," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 154(4), 2321–2332.
  3. E. Zea and M. Laudato (2021), "On the representation of wavefronts localized in space-time and wavenumber-frequency domains," JASA Express Letters 1(5), 054801.
  4. E. Zea, E. Fernandez-Grande, and I. Lopez Arteaga (2020), "Separation of rail and wheel contributions to pass-by noise with sparse regularization methods," Journal of Sound and Vibration 487, 115627.
  5. E. Zea (2019), "Compressed sensing of impulse responses in rooms of unknown properties and contents," Journal of Sound and Vibration 459, 114871.

All my publications can be found here.

Recorded talks

Supervised students

  • N. Tabeshnia, R. Zhou, Individual project SD2101, KTH / NTNU / Siemens (2024).
  • A. Callo, Individual project SD2101, KTH / Universidad Politécnica de Madrid / Le Mans University (2024).
  • L. Emmerich, MSc internship, KTH / TU Munich / Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (2024).
  • P. Aste, MSc thesis, KTH / Universidade Federal de Santa Maria / DTU / Siemens / NTNU (2024).
  • M. Kulbay, MSc thesis, KTH / Structor (2024).
  • A. Meroli, MSc thesis, KTH / University of Trento / Aritco Lift (2024).
  • R. Åhrling, A. Strömhall, BSc thesis, KTH / Delta Akustik (2024).
  • J. Ling, MSc thesis, KTH / Zound Industries (2023).
  • E. Waara Ankarstrand, M. Wörman, BSc thesis, KTH / Stiga (2023).
  • O. Lundin, MSc thesis, KTH / Siemens / NTNU (2022).
  • F. Vernersson, MSc thesis, KTH / Delta Akustik (2022).
  • M. Vourakis, Ph.D. thesis, Chalmers University of Technology / KTH / Volvo, (2021–).
  • R. Vestman, M. Westberg, BSc thesis, KTH / Astrid Education (2021).
  • P. Gräsberg, V. Söderlund, Individual project SD2101, KTH / ACAD (2020).
  • J. Chow, E. Kouamé, BSc thesis, KTH / Scania (2020).
  • A. G. Cairelli, MSc thesis (cosupervisor), Polytechnic University of Milan (2020).
  • G. Eriksson, Individual project SD2102, KTH (2019).
  • T. van Loon, BSc traineeship, Technical University of Eindhoven / ABB (2018).
  • V. Reyes, MSc thesis, University of York (2016).
  • L. Manzari*, MSc thesis, KTH (2014).

*Awarded "Best MSc Thesis" by the Swedish Acoustical Society in 2015.

Are you interested in doing your Master's thesis with us? Check out our list of MSc projects on Canvas.

Teaching


Courses

Building Acoustics and Community Noise (SD2166), teacher | Course web

Degree Project in Technical Acoustics, Second Cycle (SD211X), examiner | Course web

Individual Project Work on Sound and Vibrationer (SD2101), examiner | Course web

Noise and Vibration Control (SD1120), teacher | Course web

Signal Analysis (FSD3140), examiner | Course web

Signals and Mechanical Systems (SD2125), examiner, course responsible, teacher | Course web