Ning Xiang () is a Chinese-American

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physicist, former Research Engineer of HEAD acoustics, and former Research Scientist of Fraunhofer Institut fuer Bauphysik, and of National Center for Physical Acoustics (NCPA). He is now Director and full professor of the Graduate Program in

Architectural Acoustics Architectural acoustics (also known as building acoustics) is the science and engineering of achieving a good sound within a building and is a branch of acoustical engineering. The first application of modern scientific methods to architectura ...

at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He authored a textbook, ''Acoustics for Engineers'', (Springer) with Jens Blauert, and edited ''Acoustics, Information, and Communication'' (Springer) with

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, a memorial volume in honor of Manfred R. Schroeder in 2015. In 2017 he edited ''Architectural Acoustics Handbook'' (J. Ross Publishing). He is an expert in architectural acoustics, and received the

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from the

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in 2014. Xiang was born in

Tianjin Tianjin (; ; Mandarin: ), alternately romanized as Tientsin (), is a municipality and a coastal metropolis in Northern China on the shore of the Bohai Sea. It is one of the nine national central cities in Mainland China, with a total popu ...

, China to Xiang Yang, a high school principal. He received his undergraduate education studying communication engineering from

Tianjin University Tianjin University (TJU, ), formerly Peiyang University (), is a national public research university in Tianjin, China. The university was established in 1895 by Guangxu Emperor's royal charter to be the first university of China. It is now fu ...

in Tianjin, China and later received a doctorate in engineering after studying acoustics and communication engineering under Jens Blauert from

Ruhr-University Bochum The Ruhr University Bochum (, ) is a public research university located in the southern hills of the central Ruhr area, Bochum, Germany. It was founded in 1962 as the first new public university in Germany after World War II. Instruction began in ...

, Germany. Xiang is a Fellow of the

, and a Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics, United Kingdom. He is an Associate Editor of the

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America The ''Journal of the Acoustical Society of America'' is a monthly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering all aspects of acoustics. It is published by the Acoustical Society of America and the editor-in-chief is James F. Lynch (Woods Hole Oceanog ...

. He is internationally recognized for his contributions to measurements and analysis techniques, and numerical simulation of sound fields in coupled rooms evidenced by his over 300 publications in journals, magazines, and conference proceedings. With Jens Blauert he developed binaural scale-modeling since 1991. He developed a new method in 1995 using nonlinear regression for estimating reverberation times. With James Sabatier he successfully applied acoustic-to-seismic coupling in landmine detection. With Manfred R. Schroeder he developed a simultaneous dual channel measurement method using reciprocal maximum-length sequences (2003). He is a promoter of

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in acoustics. Xiang was visiting professor at Pierre and Marie Curie University (UPMC) in June 2013.

Books

*'' Acoustics for Engineers'' (

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, 1st ed. 2008, 2nd ed. 2009. 3rd ed. 2021) *'' Acoustics, Information and Communication -- a Memorial Volume in Honor of Manfred R. Schroeder'' (with co-editor

, 2015)

References

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