Traci Neilsen
Contact
- Office: N251 ESC
- 801.422.7056
- traci.neilsen@byu.edu
- hydroacoustics.byu.edu/
Office Hours
- By appointment. Please email tbn@byu.edu
Meetings and Assignments
Department Meetings: Th 11 am - 12 pm
Hydroacoustics Research Group: Fridays 1 pm
Acoustic Research Group Meeting: Thursdays 4 pm
Summer 2025 Teaching Schedule
| Physics 498R | TBA | TBA | TBA | TBA |
Research
Specialty: Underwater acoustics, Acoustic source localization, Inverse methods, Machine learning applications in underwater acoustics
Supervised Theses and Dissertations
Professional Bio
Tracianne B. Neilsen received a doctoral degree in physics from the University of Texas at Austin and completed a postdoctoral appointment at Applied Research Laboratories, University of Texas at Austin, where her research focused on optimization methods for source localization and environmental characterization from multi-source sound fields in the ocean. Her experience includes management and analysis of large acoustical data sets, numerical modeling of acoustic propagation, and development and employment of multi-dimensional inversion techniques. Her research is in underwater acoustics: how sound travels underwater and interacts with the environment. Her main projects are the application of machine learning to detecting sounds sources in a variable ocean environment and underwater acoustical measurements.