Prof Steve Elliott
Steve Elliott graduated with first class joint honours in physics and electronics from the University of London, in 1976, and received his PhD from the University of Surrey in 1979 for a dissertation on musical acoustics.
He was appointed Lecturer at the Institute of Sound and Vibration Research (ISVR), University of Southampton, in 1982, was made Senior Lecturer in 1988, Professor in 1994, and served as Director of the ISVR from 2005 to 2010, before retiring in 2022. His research interests have been mostly concerned with the connections between the physical world, signal processing and control, mainly in relation the active control of sound using adaptive filters and the feedback control of vibration. This work has resulted in the practical demonstration of active control in propeller aircraft, cars and helicopters. His more recent research interests have included modular systems for active sound and vibration control and modelling the active processes within the cochlear.
Professor Elliott has published over 300 papers in refereed journals and 600 conference papers, which have received over 30,000 citations. He is co-author of Active Control of Sound (with P A Nelson 1992), Active Control of Vibration (with C R Fuller and P A Nelson 1996) and author of Signal Processing for Active Control (2001). He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, was jointly awarded the Tyndall Medal from the Institute of Acoustics in 1992 and the Kenneth Harris James Prize from the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 2000.
He was made a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2009.