Contributors xxviiconsulting work as time permits. In his leisure time, Bill enjoys travel, hiking, music, and restoring vintage radio and
TV sets.
Peter Xinya Zhang
Peter Xinya Zhang is a faculty member at Columbia College, Chicago. His field is
psychoacoustics, specifically sound localization. He received a B.S. in physics from
Peking University, P.R. China, and received his Ph.D. in physics from Michigan
State University, Lansing.
In his doctoral thesis, he investigated human binaural pitch effects to test various
binaural models, and developed a new technique to simulate a 3D sound field for
virtual reality with loudspeakers. He has published papers in the Journal of Acoustical
Society of America, presented at various conferences, and served as co-chair in the
session of psychological and physiological acoustics at the 4th Joint Conference of the
Acoustical Society of America and Acoustical Society of Japan. He has lectured on
psychoacoustics and sound localization at various institutes including Loyola Univer-
sity in Chicago, Peking University (China), Institute of Acoustics at Chinese
Academy of Sciences (China), and Shanghai Conservatory (China). Dr. Zhang is a
member of the Acoustical Society of America and of the Audio Engineering Society.