Aalto Acoustics Lab
Aalto Acoustics Lab is a center for multidisciplinary research at Aalto University.
The Acoustics Lab gathers professors and research groups from three different departments: Department of Information and Communications Engineering, Department of Computer Science, and Department of Art and Media. Our research and teaching focus on audio processing and spatial sound technologies.
Check out our major in Acoustics and Audio Technology (AAT). All our courses are taught in English! The Acoustics and Audio Technology major is part of the CCIS Master's program at Aalto. Check out this video about AAT studies.
Visiting address: Otakaari 5 A, Espoo, Finland
Mailing address: P.O. Box 13100, FI-00076 AALTO, Finland
Email: acousticslab@aalto.fi
You can book a visit to the Aalto Acoustics Lab through this form: Visit to Aalto Acoustics Lab (spring 2026).
Latest news
Visit the electrical engineering laboratories in spring 2026
Welcome to visit the Robotics Lab, the Acoustics Lab, the Electronics-ICT laboratory, and the ePowerHub laboratory!
Postdoctoral researcher Eloi Moliner makes history as a 5-time award winner
Eloi Moliner is one of the most decorated doctoral researchers in Aalto University's history – we would like to highlight his success and contributions to the field of audio signal processing
Double triumph: Aalto acoustics researchers win big in Italy
The International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx) 2025 witnessed a remarkable achievement by researchers from the Aalto University Acoustics Lab, as Eloi Moliner and Professor Vesa Välimäki brought home two prestigious paper awards, showcasing cutting-edge innovation in audio signal processing.
Visit the electrical engineering laboratories in autumn 2025
Welcome to visit the Robotics Lab, the Acoustics Lab, the Electronics-ICT laboratory, and the ePowerHub laboratory!Our research topics
Prof. Vesa Välimäki, Audio signal processing research team
- Artificial reverberation
- Audio filters and equalizers
- Deep neural networks in audio processing
- Headphone and loudspeaker signal processing
- Sound synthesis
- Virtual analog modeling
Prof. Ville Pulkki, Communications acoustics research team
- Directional Audio Coding
- Spatial sound recording and reproduction
- Audio augmented reality
Prof. Tapio Lokki, Virtual acoustics research team
- Measurements
- Sensory evaluation studies
- Seat-dip effect
- Anechoic recordings
Prof. Lauri Savioja
- Wave-based methods
- Ray-based methods
Dr. Koray Tahiroglu
- Music technology performance and composition paradigms
- Digital musical interactions
- New interfaces for musical expression
- Embodied sonic interaction
- Computational procedural audio
- Human-computer interaction applied to music
Prof. Johannes M. Arend, Technical Psychoacoustics research team
- Virtual acoustics
- Spatial audio
- Binaural rendering with 6-degrees-of-freedom
- Perceptual evaluation of spatial audio reproduction
- XR-based hearing science
- VR-based auditory processing assessment
Research Activities at Acoustics Lab
Aalto Acoustics Lab Facilities
The Aalto Acoustics Lab has outstanding facilities for sound-related research, including three anechoic chambers, a variable acoustics space, a listening room, sound-proof listening booths, a large...
Audio Examples, Demos & Software, Videos
Teaching at Aalto Acoustics Lab
Professors of the Aalto Acoustics Lab provide Master's level teaching in the major of Acoustics and Audio Technology, and doctoral courses in the research field of Acoustics and Speech...
Collaborators
- Stanford University, Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), Stanford, CA, USA
- The University of Edinburgh, Acoustics and Audio Group, Edinburgh, UK
- Queen Mary University of London, Centre for Digital Music, London, UK
- University of York, Department of Electronic Engineering, York, UK
- Aalborg University, Department of Electronic Systems, Aalborg, Denmark
- Chalmers University of Technology, Division of Applied Acoustics, Gothenburg, Sweden
- Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Music Technology Group, Barcelona, Spain
- Universitat Politècnica de València, Inst. of Telecomm. and Multimedia Applications, Valencia, Spain
- Universitat Jaume I, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Castellón de la Plana, Spain
- National University of Ireland, Digital Sound and Music Technology Group, Maynooth, Ireland
- Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), International Audio Laboratories, Germany
- Hochschule für Musik Detmold, Detmold, Germany
- Università Politecnica delle Marche, A3Lab, Ancona, Italy
- University of Patras, Audio and Acoustic Technology Group, Patras, Greece
- Budapest Univ. of Tech. and Econ., Dept. of Measurement and Information Systems, Budapest, Hungary
- Tallinn University of Technology, Department of Cybernetics, Tallinn, Estonia
- Tampere University, Audio Research Group, Tampere, Finland
- University of the Arts Helsinki, Sibelius Academy, Helsinki, Finland
- Technische Universität Berlin, Audio Communication Group, Berlin, Germany
- Technische Hochschule Köln, Technical Acoustics, Cologne, Germany
- Kunstuniversität Graz, Institute of Electronic Music and Acoustics, Graz, Austria
- AAC Technologies, Finland
- Bang & Olufsen, Denmark
- Delta Senselab, Denmark
- Fraunhofer IIS, Erlangen, Germany
- Genelec, Iisalmi, Finland
- The Finnish Science Center Heureka, Vantaa, Finland
- IRCAM, Paris, France
- Native Instruments GmbH, Berlin, Germany
- Neural DSP Technologies, Helsinki, Finland
- Nokia Technologies, Espoo, Finland
- Meta Reality Labs, Redmond, WA, USA
Awards
- Tapio Lokki, First Class Knight of the Order of the White Rose of Finland, 2024
- Ville Pulkki, AES Board of Governors Award, Audio Engineering Society, 2024
- Ville Pulkki, Pineapple Science Award, 2023
- Vesa Välimäki, Fellow of the Asia-Pacific Artificial Intelligence Association, 2023
- Tapio Lokki, Honorary Member of the Acoustical Society of Finland, 2019
- Lauri Savioja, Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, 2018
- Ville Pulkki, Silver Medal Award, Audio Engineering Society, 2017
- Tapio Lokki, Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society, 2017
- Vesa Välimäki, IEEE Fellow, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2015
- Lauri Savioja, AES Board of Governors Award, Audio Engineering Society, 2015
- Ville Pulkki, Samuel L. Warner Memorial Medal Award, 2014
- Lauri Savioja, Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society, 2013
- Tapio Lokki, ICA Early Career Award, International Commission for Acoustics, 2013
- Tapio Lokki, Espoo Ambassadeur, Espoo City, 2013
- Vesa Välimäki, Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society, 2012
- Ville Pulkki, AES Board of Governors Award, Audio Engineering Society, 2012
- Tapio Lokki, Academy Award on social impact, Academy of Finland, 2011
- Tapio Lokki, Aalto Initiative of the Year Award, Aalto University, 2011
- Ville Pulkki, Fellow of the Audio Engineering Society, 2010
- Tapio Lokki, AES Board of Governors Award, Audio Engineering Society, 2009
- Eloi Moliner, Best Student Paper Award, AES International Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Audio (AIMLA), London, UK, 2025
- Eloi Moliner, Michal Švento, Alec Wright, Lauri Juvela, Pavel Rajmic, and Vesa Välimäki, Second-Best Paper Award, International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), Ancona, Italy, 2025
- Vesa Välimäki, Roope Salmi, Stefan Bilbao, Sebastian J. Schlecht, and David Zicarelli, Third-Best Paper Award, International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx), Ancona, Italy, 2025
- Eloi Moliner and Jean-Marie Lemercier, Best Student Paper Award, International Workshop on Acoustic Signal Enhancement (IWAENC), Aalborg, Denmark, 2024
- Alistair Carson, Alec Wright, Jatin Chowdhury, Vesa Välimäki, and Stefan Bilbao, Best Presentation, 27th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFX), Guildford, UK, 2024
- Gloria Dal Santo, Karolina Prawda, Sebastian J. Schlecht, and Vesa Välimäki, Best Paper Award, 26th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects DAFx, 2023
- Eloi Moliner, Best Student Paper Award, IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP), 2023
- Julian Parker, Sebastian Schlecht, Rudolf Rabenstein, and Maximilian Schäfer, Third Best Paper Award, 25th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects DAFx, 2022
- Eloi Moliner and Vesa Välimäki, Third Best Paper Award, 25th International Conference on Digital Audio Effects DAFx, 2022
- M. McCrea, L. McCormack, and V. Pulkki, Best Paper Award, NordicSMC 2021 Conference, 2021
- Janis Heldmann and Sebastian J. Schlecht, Third Best Paper Award, International Conference on Digital Audio Effects DAFx20in21, Vienna, Austria, 2021
- Juhani Paasonen and Ville Pulkki, AES Fall 2020 Convention Best Technical Paper Award, 2020
- Benoit Alary, Archontis Politis, Sebastian J. Schlecht, and Vesa Välimäki, Best Paper Award 2019, Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, 2020
- Sebastian J. Schlecht and Emanuël A. P. Habets, Best Paper Award, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA-19), 2019
- Eero-Pekka Damskägg, Lauri Juvela, and Vesa Välimäki, Best Paper Award, International Sound and Music Computing Conference SMC-19, Malaga, Spain, 2019
- Sebastian Sclecht, Benoit Alary, Vesa Välimäki, and Emanuël A. P. Habets, Second Best Paper Award, International Conference on Digital Audio Effects DAFX-18, Aveiro, Portugal, 2018
- Fabian Esqueda, Best Paper Award, International Conference on Sound and Music Computing SMC-17, 2017
- Leo McCormack, Symeon Delikaris-Manias, Angelo Farina, Daniel Pinardi, and Ville Pulkki, Best Peer-Reviewed Paper Award, Audio Engineering Society 144th Convention, Milan, Italy, 2017
- Mikko-Ville Laitinen, Sascha Disch, and Ville Pulkki, Best Paper Award, Audio Engineering Society 140th Convention, 2016
- Teemu Koski, Best Student Paper Award, Audio Engineering Society 135th Convention, 2013
- Olli Rummukainen, Best Student Paper Award, IEEE 5th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience, 2013
- Archontis Politis and Mikko-Ville Laitinen, Best Student Paper Award, Audio Engineering Society 134th Convention, 2013
- Hannes Gamper, Best Paper Award, International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-13), 2013
- Olli Rummukainen, Best Student Paper Award, IEEE 4th International Workshop on Quality of Multimedia Experience, 2012
- Jari Kleimola, Best Student Paper Award, International Conference on Digital Audio Effects (DAFx-11), 2011
- Jukka Pätynen, Best Student Paper Award, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Digital Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics (WASPAA-11), 2011
- Jukka Pätynen, Arup Acoustics Bursary Award, Arup Acoustics, 2011
- Vesa Välimäki (teaching in charge), Leonardo Fierro, and Eloi Moliner: ELEC-E5620 Audio Signal Processing (MSc course), Award for high-quality teaching in 2022-2023
- Antti Kuusinen (teacher in charge), Vesa Välimäki, Leonardo Fierro, Kuura Parkkola, Ville Pulkki, Jorma Laaksonen, Risto Wichman, Paavo Alku, and Mikko Kurimo: ELEC-C5340 Applied Digital Signal Processing (BSc course), Award for high-quality teaching in 2021-2022
- Sebastian Schlecht, Andrea Mancianti, and Nils Meyer-Kahlen: ELEC-E5690 Immersive Sound, Award for high-quality teaching in 2021-2022 (Master's and doctoral courses)
- Tapio Lokki, Sebastian Schlecht, Chris Hold, and Nils Meyer-Kahlen: ELEC-E5680 Virtual Acoustics (D), Award for high-quality teaching in the academic year 2020-2021 (Master's and doctoral courses) - For a high level of student-teacher interaction that facilitated learning and an excellent integration of research and teaching
- Vesa Välimäki, Fabian Esqueda, and Ville Pulkki: ELEC-E5620 Audio Signal Processing, Award for high-quality teaching in the academic year 2016-2017 (Master's and doctoral courses)