Ning Xiang

Ning Xiang
Born	Ning Xiang TianJin, China
Nationality	American (Chinese)
Citizenship	American
Alma mater	Tianjin University (Tianjin, China Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany
Known for	Acoustics Architectural Acoustics, and Signal Processing in Acoustics
Awards	Wallace Clement Sabine Medal (2014)
Scientific career
Fields	Acoustics Electrical engineering
Institutions	HEAD acoustics GmbH, Herzogenrath, Germany Fraunhofer Institut fuer Bauphysik, Stuttgart Germany National Center for Physical Acoustics (NCPA), University of Mississippi Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Doctoral advisor	Jens Blauert
Doctoral students	Yun Jing Alexander Bockman Philip Robinson Jonathan Botts Cameron Fackler

Template:Chinese name Ning Xiang (Chinese: 向宁) is an American-Chinese acoustics expert, 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 processor of the Graduate Program in Architectural Acoustics at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

He authored a textbook, Acoustics for Engineers, (Springer) with Jens Blauert, and edited Acoustics, Information, and Communication (Springer) with Gerhard Sessler, a memorial volume in honor of Manfred R. Schroeder in 2015.

He is an expert in architectural acoustics, and received the Wallace Clement Sabine Medal from the Acoustical Society of America in 2014.

Biography

Xiang was born in TianJin, China to Yang Xiang, a high school principal. He received his undergraduate education studying communication engineering from Tianjin University in Tianjin, China and later received a doctorate in engineering after studying acoustics and communication engineering under Jens Blauert from Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany.

Ning Xiang is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, and a Fellow of the Institute of Acoustics, United Kingdom. He is an Associate Editor of the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 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 Bayesian analysis in acoustics.

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

Books

• Acoustics for Engineers (Springer-Verlag, 1st ed. 2008, 2nd ed. 2009)
• Acoustics, Information and Communication -- a Memorial Volume in Honor of Manfred R. Schroeder (with co-editor Gerhard Sessler, Springer-Verlag, 2015)