Prof. MAO Dongxing

Prof. Dongxing Mao is a distinguished scholar renowned for his pioneering contributions to the fields of noise and vibration control, environmental acoustics, and psychoacoustics. His research encompasses a broad spectrum of topics, including subjective auditory perception, psychoacoustic evaluation of noise and sound quality, acoustic comfort in built and open environments, sound propagation modeling, and the development of acoustic metamaterials for advanced noise mitigation.

Among his seminal achievements, Prof. Mao has established foundational data on equal-loudness contours, binaural loudness, and near-field loudness characteristics specific to the Chinese population. He pioneered the field of sound quality research in China, introducing novel metrics and mathematical models for quantifying subjective attributes such as rumble, and developed a widely-adopted weighting correction model for low-frequency noise assessment. His innovations in noise control technology include the design of micro-perforated sound-absorbing structures and the application of acoustic metamaterials for superior sound absorption and insulation.

Prof. Mao’s influential work has been published in over 100 peer-reviewed articles, featured in leading international journals such as Physical Review Letters(PRL). He has played a pivotal role in shaping China’s acoustical standards landscape, leading and contributing to the formulation of more than 50 national GB standards. As chief editor of authoritative texts, including the national-level planning textbook Environmental Noise Control Engineering, he has educated and inspired generations of acousticians.