[AUDITORY] PhD Scholarship within the AXD team at Imperial College London

Subject: [AUDITORY] PhD Scholarship within the AXD team at Imperial College London

From: "Picinali, Lorenzo" <l.picinali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2023 16:30:37 +0000

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Thread-topic: PhD Scholarship within the AXD team at Imperial College London

Dear Colleagues,

A new PhD scholarship is available within the AXD team at Imperial College London for a project titled "A Neuroscientific Approach to Creating a Personalised, Spatial and Immersive Audio Experience".

ABSTRACT

Creating audio that convincingly represents sounds in a 3D space has now started to infiltrate the commercial landscape. Headphones, videogames and cinema are all vying to generate some level of spatialisation and immersion for the listener. The goal of this PhD project is to understand how individual differences (e.g. ear morphology) can affect the perception of spatial and immersive audio by developing an objective experimental approach through the recording and analysis of brain activity via electroencephalography, pupillometry and behaviour. Ultimately this multidisciplinary project will deepen our understanding of how to design and reproduce a realistic and immersive virtual sound space.

This project aims to:

Develop objective experimental paradigms using EEG/pupillometry recordings to identify differences in neural activity when exposed to personalised and non-personalised virtual audio.
Use behavioural experiments and auditory models to validate the developed paradigms.
Investigate which aspects of personalisation are important for the perception of immersive spatial audio.

REQUIREMENTS

In addition to the standard requirements for Imperial College (which you can find at the link below), essential requirements for this post are good programming skills (Python and/or Matlab) and good experience of using statistical methods (descriptive and inferential, ML is a plus), as well as an understanding of the basic principles of acoustics and digital signal processing. Desirable requirements are experience in immersive audio and spatial acoustics, experience in neuroscience and/or psychoacoustics, and more advanced programming skills (e.g. Unity, C++, etc.)

If you are interested please click HERE to find more information about how to apply. When you submit your application, please cite this project title in the 'how you are planning to fund your PhD' section.

UK, EU and overseas/international candidates are welcome to apply - please note that the deadline for receiving full applications is the 8^th of January 2024.

Don't hesitate to contact me in case you have questions about the post, and...of course please share with whoever you think might be interested.

Best
Lorenzo

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Lorenzo Picinali
Reader in Audio Experience Design
Dyson School of Design Engineering
Imperial College London
Dyson Building
Imperial College Road
South Kensington, SW7 2DB, London
E: l.picinali@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx

http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/l.picinali
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