Daniel Aalto
Assistant Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine
Research Scientist, Institute for Reconstructive Sciences in Medicine
Research interests: computer modelling of speech, swallowing, and chewing; functional impact of head and neck surgery; digital surgical design and planning
Nicolás Arnáez
Assistant Lecturer, Faculty of Arts – Music Dept | AI, Vice-President Research Innovation – Signature Research Areas
Research interests: Music Composition, New Music, Interactive Sound, Sound Art, Spatialization & Multichannel, Sonification
Anja Arnhold
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts
Research interests: prosody, phonetics, phonology, Inuit and Uralic languages
Jaimie Baron
Associate Professor, Film Studies, Faculty of Arts
Research interests: film and media theory, audiovisual appropriation, experimental film and video, documentary film and video, historiography, ethics, the history of technology and the mediation of human experience, digital media, critical race studies, media and criminal justice, media as a form of ventriloquism
Erin Bayne
Professor, Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science
Research interests: bioacoustics; avian ecology; environmental impact assessment; sound triangulation; deep learning; automated birdsong identification
Carol Boliek
Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine
Research interests: speech motor control, development, speech physiology, neuroplasticity, motor speech disorders, transcranial direct current stimulation, intermuscular coherence
Vadim Bulitko
Professor, Computing Science, Faculty of Science
Research interests: cognitive processes and models in humans, animals and computers; real-time heuristic search
Corjan Buma
Adjunct / Laboratory Manager, Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering
Research interests: architectural acoustics, acoustic engineering, noise
Julia Byl
Assistant Professor, Music, Faculty of Arts
Research interests: ethnomusicology, sound in the archive, the individual and the institution, ephemerality of performance, sonic magic in Southeast Asia, sound in poetry, genre mixing
Jason Carey
Professor, Associate Dean (Programs and Planning)
Faculty of Engineering
Research interests: vibrations and acoustics of advanced materials; biomechanics of airway soft tissues
Liz Czach
Associate Professor, Department of English and Film Studies, Faculty of Arts
Research interests: film music and sound
Laurier Fagnan
Professor, Music, Campus Saint-Jean
Research interests: vocal and choral acoustics, acoustic analysis of singing, Bel Canto vocal pedagogy, vocology, speaking voice production, choral conducting
Brian Fauteux
Assistant Professor, Popular Music and Media Studies, Faculty of Arts
Research interests: popular music studies, sound studies, music radio, music and media industries, music scenes, campus radio, cultural policy, media history
Michael Frishkopf
Professor, Music, Faculty of Arts
Adjunct Professor, Religious Studies
Adjunct Professor, Division of Community Engagement, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry
Research interests: ethnomusicology, (virtual [world) music], sonic architecture, music and religion, digital repositories, deep learning for sound recognition, social network analysis
Abram Hindle
Associate Professor, Computing Science, Faculty of Science
Research interests: computer music, sound synthesis, AI & sound, new interfaces for musical expression (NIME), music information retrieval, machine learning, power consumption analysis
Bill Hodgetts
Professor, Communication Sciences & Disorders, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine
Research interests: technology, psychology, and public awareness around hearing aids and services, bone conduction hearing aids, non-auditory factors in auditory treatment contexts, the relationship between hearing and reading in hearing loss and dyslexia contexts
Matina Kalcounis-Rueppell
Dean of Science, University of Alberta
Research interests: ultrasound; biology of acoustic communication in bats and mice; ecological, physiological, and anthropogenic effects on animal communication behaviors
Michael Litwack
Assistant Professor, English & Film Studies, Faculty of Arts
Research interests: media theory, black cultural studies, critical race and ethnic studies, history of critical and cultural theory, genealogies of mediation and technology, post-humanisms
David Lewkowich
Associate Professor, Faculty of Education
Research Interests: literacy and literature, psychoanalytic theory, ASMR, sound poetry, noise-making, teacher education, cultural histories of teachers in comics.
Torrey Loucks
Associate Professor, Department of Communication Sciences & Disorders, Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine
Research Chair, Institute for Stuttering Treatment and Research
Research interests: stuttering, speech production, speech fluency, neuroscience
Natalie Loveless
Associate Professor, History of Art, Design, and Visual Culture
Director, Research-Creation and Social Justice CoLABoratory
Co-Director, Faculty of Arts Signature Area in Research-Creation
Research interests: research-creation, soundwalking, deep listening, social and ecological justice.
Sean Luyk
Digital Projects Librarian, Digital Initiatives, University of Alberta Libraries
Research interests: digital audio, listening, multimedia repositories, music research data
Michael O’Driscoll
Professor, English and Film Studies, Faculty of Arts
Research interests: critical and cultural theory, material culture studies, archive theory, intermedia studies, oral literary performance, literary sound objects, radical poetics
Arlene Oak
Associate Professor, Dept. of Human Ecology, Faculty of ALES
Research interests: material culture and design studies with attention to the live, natural conversations that occur during the collaborative practices of design and making, the soundscapes of creative contexts (studios, workshops, construction sites), and the material culture and spatial environments of popular music.
Marilène Oliver
Assistant Professor, Art and Design, Faculty of Arts
Research interests: visual art, printmaking, sculpture, installation, medical imaging, meaningful transformations of data related to the body and identity, sonification, transformation of medical scan signals to sound
Dr Ardelle Ries
Professor of Music, UA Augustana Faculty
Research interests: accessibility arts, community music, inclusion arts, juvenile voice, multigenerational singing, music education, music & wellness, musical identity
Scott Smallwood
Associate Professor, Music, Faculty of Arts
Research interests: visual art, printmaking, sculpture, installation, medical imaging, meaningful transformations of data related to the body and identity, sonification, transformation of medical scan signals to sound
Rafael Pellizzer Soares
Principal Instructor, Aboriginal Teacher Education Program, Faculty of Education
Research interests: Story-listening, Clowning, Culturally Responsive Mathematics, Research Creation, Pedagogy, Interdisciplinarity, Sound and Listening in Education
Colleen Cassady St. Clair
Professor, Biological Sciences, Faculty of Science
Research interests: effects of anthropogenic noise on wildlife communication and health, sensory perceptions by wildlife of anthropogenic sounds as deterrents and as attractants, learned associations (e.g. cues or warnings) in complex landscapes
Christopher Sturdy
Professor, Psychology, Faculty of Science
Research interests: comparative cognition, neuroethology, songbirds, perception, animal behavior, operant conditioning, bioacoustics
Meg Wilcox
Assistant Professor, Journalism and Digital Media, Mount Royal University, Co-director, Community Podcast Initiative
Research interests: podcasting, media, journalism, audio production, collaborative media-making, community building, community-centered reporting, knowledge mobilization, decolonizing media practice.
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