Jia-Xin ZHONG (钟家鑫)

• Jiaxin.Zhong@psu.edu
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Employment

Postdoc Penn State University Dec 2022 - Ongoing

• SIMBA Lab [Lab Website]
• PI: Dr. Yun Jing [Google Scholar]

Education

PhD in Mechanical Engineering University of Technology Sydney March 2019 - Aug 2022

Thesis: Parametric Array Loudspeakers and Applications in Active Noise Control [OPUS Open Access PDF]
Supervised by A/Prof. Ray Kirby, Dr. Mahmoud Karimi, and Prof. Xiaojun Qiu

• Candidature Assessment 1 on July 22, 2020. [Report, Defense Slides]
• Candidature Assessment 2 on July 14, 2021.
• Candidature Assessment 3 (Final Defense) on Jan 20, 2022. [Thesis, Slides]

Master of Science Nanjing University Sep 2015 - Jun 2018

Thesis: Effects of a finite size reflecting disk on sound power measurements (in Chinese) [Full Text, Defense Slides]
Supervised by A/Prof. Jiancheng Tao and Prof. Xiaojun Qiu

Bachelor of Science Nanjing University Sep 2011 - Jun 2015

Thesis: The study of matching layers for ultrasonic transducers (in Chinese)
Supervised by Prof. Xinlong Wang

Research Interests

• Parametric array loudspeaker (PAL)
• Active noise control (ANC)
• Sound measurement
• Audio signal processing
• Computational acoustics

Publications

Below you can find a list of my academic publications, along with links to DOI and Full Text downloads. Bold author: self. Names with “*”: corresponding author. Names with “†”: contributed equally. Underline names: students under the supervision of Dr. Jiaxin Zhong.

Journal Articles

1. Chadi Ellouzi, Ali Zabihi, Farhood Aghdasi, Aidan Kayes, Milton Rivera, Jiaxin Zhong;, Amir Miri, Chen Shen,* “Underwater double vortex generation using 3D printed acoustic lens and field multiplexing,” APL Mater. 12(3), 031130 (2024). [DOI, Full Text]
2. Jun Ji†, Hyeonu Heo†, Jiaxin Zhong†, Mourad Oudich*, and Yun Jing*, “Metamaterial-enabled wireless and contactless ultrasonic power transfer and data transmission through a metallic wall,” Phys. Rev. Appl. 21, 014059 (2024). [DOI, Full Text, Updated Supplemental Material]
3. Jiaxin Zhong†, Chengbo Hu†, Kangkang Wang, Jun Ji, Tao Zhuang, Haishan Zou, Jing Lu, Hyeonu Heo, Bin Liang*, Yun Jing*, and Jian-Chun Cheng*, “Local-nonlinearity-enabled deep sub-diffraction control of acoustic waves,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 131, 234001 (2023). [DOI, Full Text, Supplemental Material]
4. Jiaxin Zhong†, Tao Zhuang†, Mengtong Li, Ray Kirby, Mahmoud Karimi, Jing Lu, and Dong Zhang*, “Sidelobe suppression for a steerable parametric source using the sparse random array technique,” IEEE/ACM Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. 31, 3152-3161 (2023). [DOI, Full Text]
5. Jiaxin Zhong, Haishan Zou, and Jing Lu*, “A modal expansion method for simulating reverberant sound fields generated by a directional source in a rectangular enclosure,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 154(1), 203-216 (2023). [DOI, Full Text]
6. Jiaxin Zhong, Haishan Zou, Jing Lu, and Dong Zhang*, “A modified convolution model for calculating the far field directivity of a parametric array loudspeaker,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 153(3), 1439-1451 (2023). [DOI, Full Text, Errata]
7. Tao Zhuang, Jiaxin Zhong*, Ray Kirby, Mahmoud Karimi, and Jing Lu, “A steerable non-paraxial Gaussian beam expansion for a steerable parametric array loudspeaker,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 153(1), 124-136 (2023). [DOI, Full Text Errata]
8. Jiaxin Zhong, Tao Zhuang, Ray Kirby, Mahmoud Karimi, Xiaojun Qiu, Haishan Zou*, and Jing Lu, “Low frequency audio sound field generated by a focusing parametric array loudspeaker,” IEEE Trans. Audio Speech Lang. Process. 30, 3098-3109 (2022). [DOI, Full Text]
9. Jiaxin Zhong, Ray Kirby, Mahmoud Karimi, and Haishan Zou*, “A spherical wave expansion for a steerable parametric array loudspeaker using Zernike polynomials,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 152(4), 2296-2308 (2022). [DOI, Full Text]
10. Jiaxin Zhong, Ray Kirby, Mahmoud Karimi, Haishan Zou, and Xiaojun Qiu, “Scattering by a rigid sphere of audio sound generated by a parametric array loudspeaker,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 151(3), 1615-1626 (2022). [DOI, Full Text]
11. Jiaxin Zhong, Tao Zhuang, Ray Kirby, Mahmoud Karimi, Haishan Zou, and Xiaojun Qiu, “Quiet zone generation in an acoustic free field using multiple parametric array loudspeakers,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 151(2), 1235-1245 (2022). [DOI, Full Text]
12. Jiaxin Zhong, Ray Kirby, Mahmoud Karimi, and Haishan Zou, “A cylindrical expansion of the audio sound for a steerable parametric array loudspeaker,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 150(5), 3797-3806 (2021). [DOI, Full Text]
13. Jiaxin Zhong, Ray Kirby, and Xiaojun Qiu, “The near field, Westervelt far field, and inverse-law far field of the audio sound generated by parametric array loudspeakers,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 149(3), 1524-1535 (2021). [DOI, Full Text]
14. Jiaxin Zhong and Xiaojun Qiu, “On the spherical expansion for calculating the sound radiated by a baffled circular piston,” J. Theor. Comput. Acoust., 2050026 (2020). [DOI, Full Text]
15. Jiaxin Zhong, Shuping Wang, Ray Kirby, and Xiaojun Qiu, “Reflection of audio sounds generated by a parametric array loudspeaker,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 148(4), 2327-2336 (2020). [DOI, Full Text]
16. Jiaxin Zhong, Shuping Wang, Ray Kirby, and Xiaojun Qiu, “Insertion loss of a thin partition for audio sounds generated by a parametric array loudspeaker,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 148(1), 226-235 (2020). [DOI, Full Text]
17. Jiaxin Zhong, Ray Kirby, and Xiaojun Qiu, “A spherical expansion for audio sounds generated by a circular parametric array loudspeaker,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 147(5), 3502-3510 (2020). [DOI, Full Text]
18. Jiaxin Zhong, Baicun Chen, Jiancheng Tao, and Xiaojun Qiu, “The performance of active noise control systems on ground with two parallel reflecting surfaces,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 147(5), 3397-3407 (2020). [DOI, Full Text]
19. S. Wang, Jiaxin Zhong, Xiaojun Qiu, and Ian Burnett, “A note on using panel diffusers to improve sound field diffusivity in reverberation rooms below 100 Hz,” Appl. Acoust. 169, 107471 (2020). [DOI, Full Text]
20. Jiaxin Zhong, Ray Kirby, and Xiaojun Qiu, “A non-paraxial model for the audio sound behind a non-baffled parametric array loudspeaker (L),” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 147(3), 1577-1580 (2020). [DOI, Full Text]
21. Jiaxin Zhong, Jiancheng Tao, and Xiaojun Qiu, “Increasing the performance of active noise control systems on ground with two vertical reflecting surfaces with an included angle,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 146(6), 4075-4085 (2019). [DOI, Full Text]
22. Jiaxin Zhong, Jiancheng Tao, and Xiaojun Qiu, “Increasing the performance of active noise control systems on ground with a finite size vertical reflecting surface,” Appl. Acoust. 154, 193-200 (2019). [DOI, Full Text]
23. Jiaxin Zhong, Jiancheng Tao, Feng Niu, and Xiaojun Qiu, “Effects of a finite size reflecting disk in sound power measurements,” Appl. Acoust. 140(1), 24-29 (2018). [DOI, Full Text]

Conference Proceedings and Papers

1. John Case, Carter Paprocki, Hannah Kurdila, Trent Furlong, Eric Rokni, Yu-Tong Wang, Jiaxin Zhong, Jun Ji, Daniel Russel, and Andrew Barnard, Sound power characterization of Corsi-Rosenthal boxes using DIY comparison method,” NOISE-CON 2023, Grand Rapids, MI, USA, May 15-18, 2023. [Full Text, Slides]
2. Jiaxin Zhong and Yun Jing, “Fast and accurate modeling of parametric array loudspeakers in the frequency domain,” The 184th Acoustical Society of America (ASA) Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA, May 8-12, 2023. [Slides]
3. Jiaxin Zhong, Ray Kirby, Mahmoud Karimi, Xiaojun Qiu, and Jing Lu, “Audio sound field generated by a parametric array loudspeaker in a rectangular room with lightly damped walls,” The 24th International Congress on Acoustics (ICA), Gyeonju, Korea, October 24-28, 2022. [Full Text]
4. Jiaxin Zhong, Tong Xiao, Ben Halkon, Ray Kirby, and Xiaojun Qiu, “An experimental study on the active noise control using a parametric array loudspeaker,” InterNoise 2020, Seoul, Korea, August 23-26, 2020. [Full Text, Presentation Slides]
5. Jiaxin Zhong, Jiancheng Tao, and Xiaojun Qiu, “A numerical study on active noise radiation control systems between two parallel reflecting surfaces,” The 18th Asia-Pacific Vibration Conference, Sydney, Australia, November 18-20, 2019.
6. Xiaojun Qiu, Qiaoxi Zhu, Shuping Wang, and Jiaxin Zhong, “A case study on the new reverberation room built in University of Technology Sydney,” in Proceedings of the 23rd International Congress on Acoustics, Aachen, Gemany, September 9-13, 2019. [Full Text]
7. Jiancheng Tao, Jiaxin Zhong, and Xiaojun Qiu, “Progress of research on active noise radiation control with reflecting surfaces,” in INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings, InterNoise 2019, Madrid, Spain, June 16-19, 2019, pp. 5378-5389.
8. Jiaxin Zhong, Jiancheng Tao, and Xiaojun Qiu, “Effects of the finite circular baffle size on the sound power measurement,” in INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings, InterNoise 2017, Hong Kong, China, August 27-30, 2017, pp. 2020-2027. [Full Text]
9. Jiancheng Tao, Jiaxin Zhong, and Xiaojun Qiu, “Noise radiation from an AC filter capacitor,” in INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings, InterNoise 2017, Hong Kong, China, August 27-30, 2017, pp. 1549-1558.

Industrial Projects

• November 2019 - May 2020, Jiaxin Zhong, Sipei Zhao, and Xiaojun Qiu, “Test analyses for the SoundCheck and Honze software,” Shenzhen Honze Auto-Tech Co Ltd (深圳鸿泽自动化有限公司).
• September 2019 - June 2020, Jiaxin Zhong and Xiaojun Qiu, “Integrated directional sound reproduction with parametric array loudspeakers,” Nanjing University, China.
• June 2018 - June 2019, Jiaxin Zhong, Zhibin Lin, and Xiaojun Qiu, “Investigations on the directional sound techniques on mobile devices,” Nanjing University.

Patents

• Jiaxin Zhong, Jiancheng Tao, and Xiaojun Qiu, “一种使用两面隔墙提高有源降噪系统性能的方法(A method for increasing the performance of active noise control system with two partitions),” 201910270294.2, Applied on 2019-04-03, China. [Link]
• Jiaxin Zhong, Jiancheng Tao, and Xiaojun Qiu, “一种使用隔墙提高有源声辐射控制系统降噪量的方法(A method for increasing the performance of active noise control system with a partition),” 201811394850.9, Applied on 2018-11-22, China. [Link]
• Jiancheng Tao, Jiaxin Zhong, Xiaojun Liu, and Min Di, “基于散射声功率的服务机器人圆柱形机身设计方法(A service robot cylindrical body desgin method based on scattering sound power),” 201811341590.9, Applied on 2018-11-12, China. [Link]
• Jiaxin Zhong, Jiancheng Tao, and Xiaojun Qiu, “一种恒体积速度声源低频声功率的估算方法(A method for estimating the sound power of low frequency constant volume source),” 201810269068.8, Applied on 2018-03-23, China. [Link]

Awards

Grants

• August 23, 2020, Young Professional Grant, International Institute of Noise Control Engineering (I-INCE). [Link]
• October 18, 2019, Tech Lab Staff and Student Committee HDR Collaboration Grant, University of Technology Sydney.

Scholarships

• June 12, 2020, Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Scholarship, University of Technology Sydney.
• July 26, 2019, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology (FEIT) Top Up Scholarship, University of Techonology Sydney.
• October 18, 2018, Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology Scholarship, University of Technology Sydney
• October 18, 2018, International Research Scholarship, University of Technology Sydney

Supervision

PhD

Master

Bachelor

Further Readings

• 王新龙老师的博文合集 | GitHub:JiaxinZhong/BlogOfXinlongWang
• Tips for Technical Writing
• 画图指南 [Accessory Files]