Peter Balázs

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.  

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.