Peter Balazs

Role at IT:U:

As a Fellow Professor of Acoustics, Analysis, and AI (3AI) at IT:U, Dr. Balazs is actively engaged in research at the IT:U Sound and Acoustics Lab and collaborates with the ARI Lab at the ÖAW. His work focuses on harmonic analysis, signal processing, and machine learning, contributing to advanced models in acoustics.  

Research group:

The Acoustics, Analysis & AI (3AI) group at the IT:U Austria in Linz explores how mathematics, acoustics, and artificial intelligence can work together. We study interpretable, hybrid AI systems for sound analysis—combining deep learning with mathematical structure and human insight. Our research ranges from signal processing and hearing models to bioacoustics and mathematical foundations, aiming to bridge human and machine understanding of acoustic phenomena. 

Short bio:

Peter Balazs is the Director of the Acoustics Research Institute at the ÖAW. He possesses extensive expertise in acoustics, signal processing, and mathematical methods. His research has led to significant contributions to frame theory and time-frequency analysis, with applications in numerical acoustics, mathematical physics, psychoacoustics and bioacoustics.  

His vision is bridging (deep theoretical) mathematics to more applied scientific topics. He has long been passionately committed to application-oriented mathematics for acoustics, signal-processing and machine learning. This commitment was already evident in 2011, when his project Frames and Linear Operators for Acoustical Modeling and Parameter Estimation was awarded the prestigious START Prize.  

Dr. Balazs‘ interdisciplinary work integrates mathematical models with acoustic applications, as demonstrated in current projects such as Frames and Time-Frequency Analysis in Machine Learning or Decoding Elephant Communication with AI.  

His extensive experience in teaching and supervision, his ability to present complex theoretical concepts in an accessible applied way significantly enriches the academic environment at IT:U. His affiliation with the Austrian Academy of Sciences and his active involvement in international scientific organization – he currently serves the treasurer of the International Commission for Acoustics, e.g. – further strengthen research and mentorship at IT:U.  

„My vision is bridging (deep theoretical) mathematics to more applied scientific topics. I am passionately committed to application-oriented mathematics for acoustics, signal-processing and machine learning. This allows the full usage of mathematical rigor and controllability of parameters for models and methods in the applied sciences on one hand. On the other hand, this creates new mathematical topics and concepts, raises novel questions within mathematics that are interesting and inspiring per-se“.

Peter Balazs