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Soundscape and Acoustics Researcher | Experienced data scientist and acoustics consultant

Profile Summary

I hold a BSc. in Physics & Music and a PhD in Soundscape and Computational Modelling for Environmental Design. As a researcher, I have published several journal and conference papers on urban sound perception and statistical modelling of perception. I also have several years of experience as a building and environmental acoustics consultant, specialising in environmental noise intrusion. I have extensive data processing experience in R and Python working with large-scale survey datasets. I also have signal processing experience in Python.

Subject Matter Expertise

• ★ Acoustic Engineering
• ☆ STEM
• ☆ Data Science
• ☆ Data Analysis
• ☆ Statistics
• ☆ Statistical Review
• ☆ Environmental Health
• ☆ Python
• ☆ Technical & Scientific Writing

Services

• Writing
• Research
• Data & AI

Writing Technical Writing

Research Fact Checking, Gray Literature Search, Systematic Literature Review, Secondary Data Collection

Data & AI Statistical Analysis, Algorithm Design-Non ML, Data Visualization

Work Experience

University College London

- Present

Senior Research Fellow

University College London

October 2023 - Present

Postdoctoral Research fellow

University College London

July 2022 - September 2023

Research Fellow in Soundscape Modelling

University College London

June 2022 - September 2023

Doctoral Researcher

University College London

September 2018 - June 2022

Soundscape Consultant / Acoustics Engineer

Hoare Lea

July 2019 - October 2020

Acoustical Consultant

Newson Brown Acoustics

June 2016 - September 2018

Education

PhD (IEDE)

University College London

September 2018 - September 2022

BSc Physics & Music (School of Physics & Astronomy)

Cardiff University

2012 - 2015

Certifications

• Certification details not provided.

Publications

JOURNAL ARTICLE

Andrew Mitchell, Yuanbo Hou, Bo Kang, Wenwu Wang, Jian Kang, Dick Botteldooren (2024). Cooperative Scene-Event Modelling for Acoustic Scene Classification . IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing.

Andrew Mitchell, Yuanbo Hou, Qiaoqiao Ren, Huizhong Zhang, Francesco Aletta, Jian Kang, Dick Botteldooren (2023). AI-based soundscape analysis: Jointly identifying sound sources and predicting annoyance . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Andrew Mitchell, N M Papadakis, Francesco Aletta, Jian Kang, Tin Oberman, I Aroni, G E Stavroulakis(2023). City, town, village: Potential differences in residents soundscape perception using ISO/TS 12913-2:2018 . Applied Acoustics. 213.

Andrew Mitchell, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Mercede Erfanian, Jian Kang (2023). Soundscape experience of public spaces in different world regions: A comparison between the European and Chinese contexts via a large-scale on-site survey . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Andrew Mitchell, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Mercede Erfanian, Jian Kang(2023). Soundscape experience of public spaces in different world regions: A comparison between the European and Chinese contexts via a large-scale on-site survey . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 154. (3). p. 1710--1734. Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

Andrew Mitchell, J Vida, J Antonio Almagro, R García-Quesada, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Jian Kang(2023). Soundscape attributes in Spanish: A comparison with the English version of the protocol proposed in Method A of the ISO/TS 12913–2 . Applied Acoustics. 211. (109516). p. 109516--109516. Elsevier BV

Andrew Mitchell, P N Dökmeci Yörükoğlu, Ö Türker Bayrak, N Akbulut Çoban, U B Erçakmak Osma, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Jian Kang(2023). Translation of soundscape perceptual attributes from English to Turkish . Applied Acoustics. 209. (109391). p. 109391--109391. Elsevier BV

Andrew Mitchell, Jian Kang, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Mercede Erfanian, Huan Tong, Simone Torresin, Chunyang Xu, Tingting Yang, Xiaochao Chen(2023). Supportive soundscapes are crucial for sustainable environments . Science of the Total Environment. (158868). p. 158868--158868. Elsevier BV

Andrew Mitchell, Mercede Erfanian, Christopher Soelistyo, Tin Oberman, Jian Kang, Robert Aldridge, Jing-Hao Xue, Francesco Aletta(2022). Effects of Soundscape Complexity on Urban Noise Annoyance Ratings: A Large-Scale Online Listening Experiment . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 19. (22). MDPI AG

Effects of Soundscape Complexity on Urban Noise Annoyance Ratings: A Large-Scale Online Listening Experiment <head> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh" CONTENT="0;URL=/servlet/useragent"> </head> . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Andrew Mitchell, Nikolaos M Papadakis, Francesco Aletta, Jian Kang, Tin Oberman, Georgios E Stavroulakis(2022). Translation and cross-cultural adaptation methodology for soundscape attributes – A study with independent translation groups from English to Greek . Applied Acoustics. 200. (109031). Elsevier BV

Andrew Mitchell, Mercede Erfanian, Christopher Soelistyo, Tin Oberman, Jian Kang, Robert Aldridge, Jing-Hao Xue, Francesco Aletta (2022). Effects of Soundscape Complexity on Urban Noise Annoyance Ratings: A Large-Scale Online Listening Experiment . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

Andrew Mitchell, Francesco Aletta, Jian Kang(2022). How to analyse and represent quantitative soundscape data . JASA Express Letters. 2. (3). Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

Andrew Mitchell(2022). How to analyse and represent quantitative soundscape data . JASA Express Letters. 2. (3). p. 037201.

Andrew Mitchell, Tin Oberman, Francesco Aletta, Magdalena Kachlicka, Matteo Lionello, Mercede Erfanian, Jian Kang(2021). Investigating urban soundscapes of the COVID-19 lockdown: A predictive soundscape modeling approach . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 150. (6). p. 4474--4488. Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

Andrew Mitchell, Jer&#243;nimo Vida, Jos&#233; Antonio Almagro, Rafael Garc&#237;a-Quesada, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Jian Kang (2021). Urban Soundscape Assessment by Visually Impaired People: First Methodological Approach in Granada (Spain) . Sustainability.

Andrew Mitchell, J Vida, J A Almagro, R Garc&#237;a-Quesada, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Jian Kang(2021). Urban soundscape assessment by visually impaired people: First methodological approach in Granada (Spain) . Sustainability. 13. (24).

Investigating urban soundscapes of the COVID-19 lockdown: A predictive soundscape modeling approach @Article{Mitchell2021Investigating, author = {Andrew Mitchell and Tin Oberman and Francesco Aletta and Magdalena Kachlicka and Matteo Lionello and Mercede Erfanian and Jian Kang}, journal = {The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America}, title = {Investigating urban soundscapes of the {COVID}-19 lockdown: {A} predictive soundscape modeling approach}, year = {2021}, month = dec, number = {6}, pages = {4474--4488}, volume = {150}, doi = {10.1121/10.0008928}, } . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Andrew Mitchell, Jer&#243;nimo Vida Manzano, Jose Antonio Almagro, Rafael Garc&#237;a Quesada, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Jian Kang (2021). Urban Soundscape Assessment by Visually Impaired People: First Methodological Approach in Granada (Spain) . Sustainability.

Andrew Mitchell, Mercede Erfanian, Francesco Aletta, Jian Kang(2021). Psychological well-being and demographic factors can mediate soundscape pleasantness and eventfulness: A large sample study . Journal of Environmental Psychology. (101660). p. 101660--101660. Elsevier BV

Andrew Mitchell, Mercede Erfanian, Francesco Aletta, Jian Kang (2021). Psychological well-being and demographic factors can mediate soundscape pleasantness and eventfulness: A large sample study . Journal of Environmental Psychology.

Andrew Mitchell, H Tong, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Jian Kang(2021). Increases in noise complaints during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spring 2020: A case study in Greater London, UK . Science of the Total Environment. 785.

Andrew Mitchell(2021). Increases in noise complaints during the COVID-19 lockdown in Spring 2020: A case study in Greater London, UK . Science of The Total Environment. 785. p. 147213.

Andrew Mitchell, F Orga, M Freixes, Francesco Aletta, R M Alsina-Pag&#232;s, M Foraster(2021). Multilevel annoyance modelling of short environmental sound recordings . Sustainability. 13. (11).

Andrew Mitchell, Ferran Orga, Marc Freixes, Francesco Aletta, Rosa Ma Alsina-Pag&#232;s, Maria Foraster (2021). Multilevel Annoyance Modelling of Short Environmental Sound Recordings . Sustainability.

Andrew Mitchell, Ferran Orga, Marc Freixes, Francesco Aletta, Rosa Ma Alsina-Pag&#232;s, Maria Foraster (2021). Multilevel Annoyance Modelling of Short Environmental Sound Recordings . Sustainability.

Andrew Mitchell(2021). Introducing a Method for Intervals Correction on Multiple Likert Scales: A Case Study on an Urban Soundscape Data Collection Instrument . Frontiers in Psychology. 11. p. 3943.

Andrew Mitchell, Matteo Lionello, Francesco Aletta, Jian Kang(2021). Introducing a Method for Intervals Correction on Multiple Likert Scales: A Case Study on an Urban Soundscape Data Collection Instrument . Frontiers in Psychology. 11. p. 602831--602831.

Andrew Mitchell(2021). The “sound of silence” in Granada during the COVID-19 lockdown . Noise Mapping. 8. (1). p. 16--31. Walter de Gruyter {GmbH}

Andrew Mitchell, J V Manzano, J A A Pastor, R G Quesada, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Jian Kang(2021). The "sound of silence" in Granada during the COVID-19 lockdown . Noise Mapping. 8. (1). p. 16--31.

(2020). Assessing the changing urban sound environment during the COVID-19 lockdown period using short-term acoustic measurements . Noise Mapping.

Andrew Mitchell, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Huan Tong, Jian Kang(2020). Assessing the changing urban sound environment during the COVID-19 lockdown period using short-term acoustic measurements . Noise Mapping. 7. (1). p. 123--134. Walter de Gruyter GmbH

Andrew Mitchell, Tin Oberman, Francesco Aletta, Mercede Erfanian, Magdalena Kachlicka, Matteo Lionello, Jian Kang(2020). The Soundscape Indices (SSID) Protocol: A Method for Urban Soundscape Surveys—Questionnaires with Acoustical and Contextual Information . Applied Sciences. 10. (7). p. 2397. {MDPI} {AG}

Andrew Mitchell, Tin Oberman, Francesco Aletta, Mercede Erfanian, Magdalena Kachlicka, Matteo Lionello, Jian Kang(2020). The Soundscape Indices (SSID) Protocol: A Method for Urban Soundscape Surveys—Questionnaires with Acoustical and Contextual Information . Applied Sciences. 10. (7). p. 2397--2397. MDPI AG

Andrew Mitchell, Tin Oberman, Francesco Aletta, Mercede Erfanian, Magdalena Kachlicka, Matteo Lionello, Jian Kang (2020). The Soundscape Indices (SSID) Protocol: A Method for Urban Soundscape Surveys—Questionnaires with Acoustical and Contextual Information . Applied Sciences.

Mercede Erfanian, Andrew J. Mitchell, Jian Kang, Francesco Aletta(2019). The Psychophysiological Implications of Soundscape: A Systematic Review of Empirical Literature and a Research Agenda . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 16. (19). p. 3533. {MDPI} {AG}

Andrew Mitchell, Mercede Erfanian, Jian Kang, Francesco Aletta(2019). The Psychophysiological Implications of Soundscape: A Systematic Review of Empirical Literature and a Research Agenda . International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. MDPI AG

CONFERENCE PAPER

Andrew Mitchell, Y Hou, S Song, C Luo, Q Ren, W Xie, Jian Kang, W Wang, D Botteldooren(2023). Joint Prediction of Audio Event and Annoyance Rating in an Urban Soundscape by Hierarchical Graph Representation Learning . Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH. 2023-A. p. 331--335. ISCA

Andrew Mitchell, Jian Kang, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, M Erfanian(2023). ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SOUNDSCAPE INDICES (SSID). Proceedings of the International Congress on Sound and Vibration.

Andrew Mitchell, Cleopatra Christina Moshona, Francesco Aletta, Helen Henze, Xiaochao Chen, Tin Oberman, Huan Tong, Andr&#233; Fiebig, Jian Kang, Brigitte Schulte-Fortkamp(2022). What is a soundscape intervention? Exploring definitions and identification criteria and a platform to gather real-world examples.

Andrew Mitchell, R M Alsina-Pag&#232;s, F Orga, M Freixes, R Mallol, Francesco Aletta, Jian Kang, M Foraster(2020). Urban environment soundscape evaluation: Milan case study of noise events perceptions by citizens. Internoise.

(2019). Associations between soundscape experience and self-reported wellbeing in open public urban spaces: a field study . The Lancet.

Andrew Mitchell, Jian Kang, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, M Erfanian, Magdalena Kachlicka, M Lionello(2019). Towards soundscape indices . Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics. 2019-September. p. 2488--2495. ICA

Kang, Jian and Aletta, Francesco and Oberman, Tin and Erfanian, Mercede and Kachlicka, Magdalena and Lionello, Matteo and Mitchell, Andrew(2019). Towards soundscape indices. Proceedings of the International Congress on Acoustics—ICA, Aachen, Germany. p. 9--13.

DATA SET

Andrew Mitchell, Mercede Erfanian, Christopher Soelitsyo, Tin Oberman, Francesco Aletta(2022). DeLTA (Deep Learning Techniques for noise Annoyance detection) Dataset . Zenodo

Andrew Mitchell, Tin Oberman, Francesco Aletta, Mercede Erfanian, Magdalena Kachlicka, Matteo Lionello, Jian Kang(2022). The International Soundscape Database: An integrated multimedia database of urban soundscape surveys -- questionnaires with acoustical and contextual information . Zenodo

The International Soundscape Database: An integrated multimedia database of urban soundscape surveys -- questionnaires with acoustical and contextual information @Dataset{Mitchell2021International, author = {Mitchell, Andrew and Oberman, Tin and Aletta, Francesco and Erfanian, Mercede and Kachlicka, Magdalena and Lionello, Matteo and Kang, Jian}, doi = {10.5281/zenodo.5578572}, groups = {Thesis}, month = oct, publisher = {Zenodo}, qualityassured = {qualityAssured}, title = {{The International Soundscape Database: An integrated multimedia database of urban soundscape surveys -- questionnaires with acoustical and contextual information}}, version = {0.2.4}, year = {2021}, } .

DISSERTATION THESIS

Andrew Mitchell(2022). Predictive Modelling of Complex Urban Soundscapes: Enabling an engineering approach to soundscape design.

CONFERENCE ABSTRACT

Andrew Mitchell, Tin Oberman, Francesco Aletta, Jian Kang(2021). Development of a multi-level predictive soundscape model to assess the soundscapes of public spaces during the COVID-19 lockdowns . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Andrew Mitchell, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Mercede Erfanian, Matteo Lionello, Magdalena Kachlicka, Jian Kang(2019). Associations between soundscape experience and self-reported wellbeing in open public urban spaces: a field study . The Lancet.

(2019). The spectral structure of acoustic time series can predict the perceptual assessment of urban soundscapes . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

(2019). Making cities smarter with new soundscape indices . The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

Andrew Mitchell, Jian Kang(2019). The spectral structure of acoustic time series can predict the perceptual assessment of urban soundscapes . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 146. (4_Supplement). p. 2795--2795. Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

Andrew Mitchell, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Mercede Erfanian, Magdalena Kachlicka, Matteo Lionello, Jian Kang(2019). Making cities smarter with new soundscape indices . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 146. (4_Supplement). p. 2873--2873. Acoustical Society of America (ASA)

Andrew Mitchell, Jian Kang, Francesco Aletta, Tin Oberman, Huan Tong Acoustic environments and Soundscapes in London during the Spring 2020 Lockdown . Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

OTHER

Andrew Mitchell, Mercede Erfanian, Francesco Aletta, Jian Kang(2020). Psychological Well-being and Demographic Factors can Mediate Soundscape Pleasantness and Eventfulness: A large sample study . Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

WORKING PAPER

Andrew Mitchell, Mercede Erfanian, Francesco Aletta, Jian Kang Psychological Well-being and Demographic Factors can Mediate Soundscape Pleasantness and Eventfulness: A large sample study .