Elias Zea Marcano

I am an assistant professor of engineering acoustics at The Marcus Wallenberg Laboratory for Sound and Vibration Research (MWL). My research interests span theoretical and experimental methods, with focus on sparse signal processing, harmonic analysis, and data-driven methods.

I serve as a reviewer in The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, The Journal of Sound and Vibration, Applied Acoustics, EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, Mechanical Systems and Signal Processing, IEEE Signal Processing Letters, and Acta Acustica. I am currently a Guest Editor in the Journal of Theoretical and Computational Acoustics.

News

• Nov 2024, new paper: R. Scoczynski Ribeiro, R.M. Bosse, G.M.S. Gidrão, L. Silvestro, M. Arnela, E. Zea, “Eco-design of airborne sound insulation in Recycled Lightweight Concrete walls for Brazilian social housing: A reliability-based approach," Applied Acoustics 230, 110431, 2025.
• Oct 2024, new preprint: M. Vourakis, E. Zea, M. Karlsson, N. Andersson, S. Etemad, Installation effects on axial fans: Combined aeroacoustic and psychoacoustic perspective, Available at SSRN, 2024.

Ongoing research

• Sparse representations of wave fields in unified space-time

• Measurement of sound absorption of porous absorbers with deep learning

• Sound generation mechanisms in physiological flows

• Sustainable aviation with applications to noise, air-traffic management, and drones

The Swedish Research Council and the European Commission financially support my research.

Selected publications

1. Zea, Laudato, and Andén (2024), "A continuous boostlet transform for acoustic waves in space-time," arXiv:2403.11362.
2. Zea et al. (2023), "Sound absorption estimation of finite porous samples with deep residual learning,"Journal of the Acoustical Society of America,154(4), 2321–2332.
3. Zea and Laudato (2021), "On the representation of wavefronts localized in space-time and wavenumber-frequency domains,"JASA Express Letters,1(5), 054801.
4. Zea, Fernandez-Grande, and Lopez Arteaga (2020), "Separation of rail and wheel contributions to pass-by noise with sparse regularization methods,"Journal of Sound and Vibration,487, 115627.
5. Zea (2019), "Compressed sensing of impulse responses in rooms of unknown properties and contents,"Journal of Sound and Vibration,459, 114871.

All my publications can be found here.

Recorded talks

• Oct 2021, Conference paper: E. Zea, E. Brandão, M. Nolan, J. Andén, J. Cuenca, U.P. Svensson, Learning the finite size effect for in-situ absorption measurement, Presentation recorded for Euronoise (e-Congress), 2021.
• Dec 2020, Conference paper: E. Zea, E. Fernandez-Grande, I. Lopez Arteaga, Sparsity-driven separation of railway rolling noise with a microphone array, Presentation recorded for e-Forum Acusticum, 2020.

Supervised students

• N. Tabeshnia, R. Zhou, Individual project SD2101, KTH / NTNU / Siemens (2024).
• A. Callo, Individual project SD2101, KTH / Universidad Politécnica de Madrid / Le Mans University (2024).
• L. Emmerich, MSc internship, KTH / TU Munich / Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (2024).
• P. Aste, MSc thesis, KTH / Universidade Federal de Santa Maria / DTU / Siemens / NTNU (2024).
• M. Kulbay, MSc thesis, KTH / Structor (2024).
• A. Meroli, MSc thesis, KTH / University of Trento / Aritco Lift (2024).
• R. Åhrling, A. Strömhall, BSc thesis, KTH / Delta Akustik (2024).
• J. Ling, MSc thesis, KTH / Zound Industries (2023).
• E. Waara Ankarstrand, M. Wörman, BSc thesis, KTH / Stiga (2023).
• O. Lundin, MSc thesis, KTH / Siemens / NTNU (2022).
• F. Vernersson, MSc thesis, KTH / Delta Akustik (2022).
• M. Vourakis, Ph.D. thesis, Chalmers University of Technology / KTH / Volvo, (2021–).
• R. Vestman, M. Westberg, BSc thesis, KTH / Astrid Education (2021).
• P. Gräsberg, V. Söderlund, Individual project SD2101, KTH / ACAD (2020).
• J. Chow, E. Kouamé, BSc thesis, KTH / Scania (2020).
• A. G. Cairelli, MSc thesis (cosupervisor), Polytechnic University of Milan (2020).
• G. Eriksson, Individual project SD2102, KTH (2019).
• T. van Loon, BSc traineeship, Technical University of Eindhoven / ABB (2018).
• V. Reyes, MSc thesis, University of York (2016).
• L. Manzari*, MSc thesis, KTH (2014).

*Awarded "Best MSc Thesis" by the Swedish Acoustical Society in 2015.

Are you interested in doing your Master's thesis with us? Check out our list of MSc projects on Canvas.

Teaching

• Teacher in FDT3318 Room Acoustics and Spatial Audio, Third Cycle (2024–).
• Examiner and teacher in FSD3140 Signal Analysis, Third Cycle (2024–).
• Examiner in SD2101 Individual Project Work on Sound and Vibrations, Second Cycle (2024–).
• Examiner and teacher in SD211X Degree Project in Technical Acoustics, Second Cycle (2024–).
• Examiner, course responsible, and teacher in SD2125 Signals and Mechanical Systems, First/Second Cycle (2023–).
• Teacher in SD2166 Building Acoustics and Community Noise, Second Cycle (2020–).