
Lakshmikanth Tipparaju
Senior Acoustic System and Transducer Engineer at Dolby Laboratories San Francisco Bay Area, USA
Lakshmikanth Tipparaju is a senior acoustic system and transducer engineer at Dolby Laboratories in San Francisco, where he has been working since 2018. At Dolby, his role focuses on simulation-driven development of acoustic systems and transducers for developing innovative acoustic hardware solutions to help expand adoption of Dolby Atmos in consumer products and has contributed to the development of ultra-thin Dolby Atmos Enabled Speaker technology. Prior to Dolby, he worked as a simulation engineer within the Audio R&D group at Samsung Research America, focusing on FEM modeling of loudspeaker drive units and enclosures. Lakshmikanth holds two patents in loudspeaker technology and has authored several papers on simulation-driven loudspeaker development. He received his master of science degree from Arizona State University and is a member of the Audio Engineering Society.

Jinlan Huang
Lead Applications Engineer, COMSOL Massachusetts, USA
Jinlan Huang is a lead applications engineer for vibrations and acoustics at COMSOL and instructs acoustics training courses. She received her PhD from Boston University, Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering, investigating acoustic wave propagation in complex-tissue environments and ultrasound-induced tissue heating and bleeding control. She joined COMSOL in 2011.