Dr. Tong Xiao received an Honour Bachelor Degree of Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University in 2015 and a PhD in Engineering from the University of Technology Sydney (UTS) in 2023. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany. Dr. Xiao had extensive experience, including previous roles as a postdoctoral researcher at UTS (2022-2023), a research intern at Facebook (Meta) Reality Labs (2020-2021), and an academic tutor at UTS (2021). His expertise spans active noise control, audio signal processing, and machine learning, contributing significantly to both academic research and industry advancements.

• Active Noise Control/Cancellation
• Spatial Audio
• Microphone Array Processing
• Machine Learning for Acoustical Signal Processing

Collaborative Research Centre SFB 1330 Hearing Acoustics (HAPPAA)
Project C1 - MIMO acoustic earpiece for combined equalization, feedback cancellation and noise reduction

1. Xiao, T., Halkon, B., Wang, S., Oberst, S. and Qiu, X.: 2024, Refracto-vibrometry for active control of sound radiation through an opening. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 577(118242), pp. 1-15. 
2. Xiao, T., Xu, B., Zhao, C.: 2023, Spatially selective active noise control systems, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 153(5), pp. 2733-2744.
3. Xiao, T., Zhao, S., Qiu, X. and Halkon, B.: 2021, Using a retro-reflective membrane and laser Doppler vibrometer for real-time remote acoustic sensing and control, Sensors 21(11), pp. 1-15. 
4. Xiao, T., Qiu, X. and Halkon, B.: 2020, Ultra-broadband local active noise control with remote acoustic sensing, Scientific reports 10(1), pp. 1-12. 

1. Xiao, T. and Doclo, S.: 2024, Effect of target signals and delays on spatially selective active noise control for open-fitting hearables. in Proc. IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 1056-1060.
2. Xiao, T., Halkon, B., Zhao, S., Cooper-Woolley, B., Strange, F., Ferguson, A.: 2023, Environmental noise tagging via audio spectrogram transformer, INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings, Vol. 268, Institute of Noise Control Engineering, pp. 7394-7400. 
3. Cooper-Woolley, B., Darroch, M.M., Cong, J., Hendriks, X., Zhu, Q., Xiao, T., Zhao, S. and Halkon, B.: 2023. Initial design, development & calibration of MEMS based sound level meter for real-time construction monitoring. In 2022 Conference of the Acoustical Society of New Zealand. 
4. Xiao, T., Halkon, B., Oberst, S., Wang, S. and Qiu, X.: 2022, Sound field measurement at an enclosure opening using refracto-vibrometry, Proceedings of the 28th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, ICSV. 
5. Xiao, T., Qiu, X. and Halkon, B.: 2021, Using a laser Doppler vibrometer to estimate sound pressure in air, in S. Oberst, B. Halkon, J. Ji and T. Brown (eds), Vibration Engineering for a Sustainable Future, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 371-377. 
6. Zhong, J., Xiao, T., Halkon, B., Kirby, R. and Qiu, X.: 2020, An experimental study on the active noise control using a parametric array loudspeaker, INTER-NOISE and NOISE-CON Congress and Conference Proceedings, Vol. 261, Institute of Noise Control Engineering, pp. 662-668. 
7. Xiao, T. and Qiu, X.: 2019, A comparison of using sound pressure and particle velocity as error signals for local active noise control, Proceedings of the 26th International Congress on Sound and Vibration, ICSV 2019. 

• Noise-Canceling Headphones Without the Headphones [IEEE Spectrum]
• Headset over earphone: Cancelling out unnecessary and unwanted noise [Science Daily] [Tech Xplore] [Bioengineer.org] [EurekAlert!] [Scimex]
• They invent noise reduction without headphones (in French) [Futura-Sciences]

• 2022 Recipient, UTS Vice-Chancellor’s Conference Fund (International Congress on Sound and Vibration)
• 2022 Recipient, Graduate Research School Post Thesis Scholarship
• 2020 Recipient, Graduate Research School One-Off Scholarship
• 2019 Recipient, Graduate Research School One-Off Scholarship
• 2017 Recipient, Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Fees Offset Scholarship
• 2017 Recipient, Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend

• IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing (IEEE TASLP)
• Applied Acoustics
• Trends in Hearing
• Noise Control Engineering Journal (NCEJ)

• PhD Thesis: Laser Doppler Vibrometry Based Remote Sensing For Active Noise Control