Tapio Lokki
Full Professor
Aalto University
Prof. Tapio Lokki has studied acoustics, audio signal processing, and computer science at the Helsinki University of Technology (TKK) and received an M.Sc. degree in electrical engineering in 1997 and a D.Sc.(Tech.) degree in computer science and engineering in 2002. Then he continued at TKK as a lecturing researcher teaching virtual reality and making research on virtual auditory environments. At 2007 he was appointed as an Academy Research Fellow, which is highly competed independent research position in Finland, for a period of five years. In 2008, he received ERC Starting Grant in the first ERC call. At present Dr. Lokki is a Professor and a Head of the department with the Department of Information and Communications Engineering at Aalto University School of Electrical Engineering, where he leads the virtual acoustics research team. The passion of Prof. Lokki is to understand how rooms modify sound we hear. To pursue the encompassing understanding of room acoustics, his team is investigating auralization, spatial sound reproduction, binaural technology, and novel objective and subjective evaluation methods. Particularly, the interest has been in concert halls, in which the team has developed new measurement techniques, analysis methods for spatial impulse responses, and sensory evaluation methods to understand the perceptual differences between concert halls. Furthermore, Prof. Lokki has been continuing a long-term research on augmented reality audio and novel hearing protection devices. Professor Lokki’s recent novel research area is bio-based porous absorption materials. Prof. Lokki has published over 100 journal articles and over 200 conference papers. He has been awarded by the International Commission of Acoustics (ICA Early Career Award 2013), the Audio Engineering Society (Fellow 2017), the Academy of Finland Award on social impact (2011). Prof. Lokki is a member of the Acoustical Society of America, a fellow of the Audio Engineering Society, and an honorary member of the Acoustical Society of Finland.