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 in noise source separation and quantification, aeroacoustics, and room acoustics, focusing on sparse signal processing, harmonic analysis, and data-driven approaches.

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 Signal, Image, and Video Processing. I am currently a Guest Editor in the Journal of Theoretical and Computational Acoustics.

News

• Feb 2025, new preprint: E. Zea, M. Laudato, J. Andén, "Sparse wavefield reconstruction and denoising with boostlets," arXiv:2502.08230, 2025.
• Feb 2025, new preprint: L. Emmerich, P. Aste, E. Brandão, M. Nolan, J. Cuenca, U.P. Svensson, M. Maeder, S. Marburg,E. Zea, "A data-driven two-microphone method for in-situ sound absorption measurements," arXiv:2502.04143, 2025.

Ongoing research

• Sparse representation of wavefields in unified space-time

• Sound absorption quantification with deep learning

• Aeroacoustics applications to axial fans and 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. E. Zea, M. Laudato, and J. Andén (2024), "A continuous boostlet transform for acoustic waves in space-time", arXiv:2403.11362.
2. E. Zeaet 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. E. Zea and M. Laudato (2021), "On the representation of wavefronts localized in space-time and wavenumber-frequency domains", JASA Express Letters,1(5), 054801.
4. E. Zea, E. Fernandez-Grande, and I. 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. E. 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.

Supervision experience

• M. Vourakis, Ph.D. thesis, Chalmers University of Technology / KTH / Volvo (2021–2025).
• B. Işik, Research engineer, KTH (2025–).
• L. Conord, Internship, KTH / Sonic Shield Solutions / Le Mans University (2025).
• A. Callo, Internship, KTH / Universidad Politécnica de Madrid / Le Mans University (2025).
• Z. Liu, MSc thesis, KTH / ABB / Linköping University (2025).
• S. Chen, MSc thesis, KTH / Aalto / ABB / Linköping University (2025).
• O. Goldkhul Karlsson, Individual project SD2101, KTH / NTNU / Siemens (2025).
• E. Skogman, N. Svensson, BSc thesis, KTH (2025).
• 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).
• R. Pozuelo, Postdoc, KTH (2023–2024).
• P. Loganathan, Postdoc (co-supervisor), KTH (2023–2025).
• H. Aksoy, Postdoc (co-supervisor), KTH (2023–2025).
• 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).
• 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–).