Acoustics and Vibrations

Felipe Orduña-Bustamante

Appointed as a Researcher at the Acoustics and Vibration Group at ICAT-UNAM, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.  Bsc degree in Physics (UNAM, 1987), MSc and PhD degrees in Sound and Vibration (University of Southampton, UK, 1990, 1995).  Research topics include Acoustic Instrumentation, Acoustic Measurements, Signal Processing, Musical Acoustics, and Music Technology, author of numerous peer review journal publications, congress papers, technical reports, and international patents.  Former fellow member of the Acoustical Society of America, member of the Audio Engineering Society, and other academic societies.  Professor and thesis supervisor at the Engineering and Music faculties at UNAM, participating in the creation of postgraduate study programs in Scientific Instrumentation (1998), and Music Technology (2004).  Amateur musician, player of the classical guitar, baroque transverse flute, recorder, early and electronic keyboards, and choral singer.

 

Acoustic Instrumentation and Measurements.

Acoustic Signal Processing.

Musical Acoustics and Music Tecnology.

“Measurement of sound absorption, sound isolation and difussion properties of acoustic materials using time domain reflectometry”, PAPIIT, clave: IT100723, 2023-2025.

Alejandra Quintanar-Isaı́as, Felipe Orduña-Bustamante, Ana Teresa Jaramillo-Pérez, Cándido Cruz-Santiago, Norma Castañeda-Villa, Dulce Selene Nolasco-Ramı́rez, “Alternative sustainable Mexican tropical woods for classical guitar frameboards and fretboards”, European Journal of Wood and Wood Products, 83, 101 (2025). ISSN: 0018-3768 (print), 1436-736X (online). (AIPT: Musical acoustics). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00107-025-02250-y

Angel Arellano Pérez, Felipe Orduña-Bustamante, Santiago J. Pérez-Ruiz, Antonio Pérez López, Ricardo Dorantes, Antonio Bautista Kuri, “Acoustics of Palacio de los Deportes in Mexico City, from the 1968 Olympics to a modern music venue”, Building Acoustics, (2025). ISSN: 1351-010X (print), 2059-8025 (online). (AIPT: Architectural Acoustics). https://doi.org/10.1177/1351010X251317047

Quintero, A. M., Nieto, A. X., Orduña, F., Sánchez, S., Marı́n-Calvo, N. “Acoustic and thermal study of coconut fiber agglomerated with cassava starch”, Journal of Applied Research and Technology, 23(1), 33–44 (2025). ISSN: 1665-6423. (AIPT: Acoustic measurements). https://doi.org/10.22201/icat.24486736e.2025.23.1.2669

Felipe Orduña-Bustamante, Roberto Velasco-Segura, Guillermo Quintero, Santiago Jesús Pérez-Ruiz, Antonio Pérez-López, Ricardo Dorantes-Escamilla, Dulce R. Ponce-Patrón, “Simplified vented acoustic window with broadband sound transmission loss”, Applied Acoustics, 109865, (2024), ISSN: 0003-682X. (AIPT: Architectural acoustics). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2024.109865

Felipe Orduña-Bustamante, A.L. Padilla-Ortiz, Carlos Mena, “Assessing the benefits of virtual speaker lateralization for binaural speech intelligibility over the Internet”, Applied Acoustics, 202, 108966, (2023).  ISSN: 0003-682X.  (AIPT: Speech). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2022.109146

Jose Maria Gomez-Perez, Felipe Orduña-Bustamante, “Acoustic travelling wave separation in the time domain using electronic time delay circuits and leaky recursion”, Applied Acoustics, 198, 108966, (2022).  ISSN: 0003-682X. (AIPT: Acoustic instrumentation). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2022.108966

A.L. Padilla-Ortiz, Felipe Orduña-Bustamante, “Binaural speech intelligibility tests conducted remotely over the Internet compared with tests under controlled laboratory conditions”, Applied Acoustics, 172, 107574, (2021). ISSN: 0003-682X. (AIPT: Speech). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2020.107574 

Herrera-Castro, M., Quintanar-Isaías, A., Orduña-Bustamante, F., Olmedo-Vera, B., Jaramillo-Pérez, A. T., “Wood identification and acoustic analysis of three original Aztec teponaztli musical instruments”, Madera y Bosques, 25(1), e2511690, (2019). ISSN: 1405-0471. (AIPT: Musical Acoustics). https://doi.org/10.21829/myb.2019.2511690

Felipe Orduña-Bustamante, A. L. Padilla-Ortiz, Edgar A. Torres-Gallegos, “Binaural speech intelligibility through personal and non-personal HRTF via headphones, with added artificial noise and reverberation”, Speech Communication, 105, pp. 53-61, December (2018). ISSN: 0167-6393. (AIPT: Speech). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2018.10.009 

Felipe Orduña Bustamante, F. Arturo Machuca Tzili, Roberto Velasco Segura, “Evaluation of the bias error of transmission tube measurements of normal-incidence sound transmission loss using narrow tube reference elements”, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 144(2), pp. 1040-1048, August (2018). ISSN: 0001-4966. (AIPT: Acoustic measurements). https://doi.org/10.1121/1.5051649

44 international peer-reviewed papers, published in scientific journals (34), and in proceedings  (10).

70 other papers published in journals: international (3), local (3), and in proceedings: international (29), local (35).

819 citations, h-factor=10 on June, 2025. http://www.scopus.com/

Mexican patent No. 391818, 2017-2037. Felipe Arturo Machuca Tzili, Felipe Orduña Bustamante, Antonio Pérez López, Santiago Jesús Pérez Ruiz, Andrés E. Pérez Matzumoto, “Modified acoustic transmission tube apparatus for measurements of sound transmission loss”.

Six computer applications for Acoustics with copyright register (Mexico).

Two international patents on digital audio processing and multichannel sound reproduction.

Doctoral research project sponsored by the University of Southampton (U.K.), Adaptive Audio Ltd. (U.K.), and six japanese companies: Alpine, Bridgestone, Hittachi, MTT Instrumentation, Nissan, Yamaha.

Comercial patent explotation agreement, 1996-2008, between Adaptive Audio Ltd., and Yamaha.

Two technological reasearch projects, 2006-2008, 2008-2010, sponsored by Intel Corp., through Intel Systems Research Center-México.

 

Thesis supervisor and teacher in the graduate study programs of Electrical Engineering (Acoustic Instrumentation), Music (Music Technology), and Physics at UNAM.

Teaching experience in over 90 one-semester courses, and over 50 talks.

Thesis supervisor of 47 theses: 13 doctoral, 27 master, and 7 undergraduate.

DOCTORAL

Dulce Rosario Ponce Patrón (Urban Architecture).

Martha María Madrigal León (Music Cognition).

Sebastian Mauricio Palacios Romero (Electrical Engineering, Acoustic Instrumentation).

Carlos Paz Medina (Electrical Engineering, Acoustic Instrumentation).

José Edgar Bernardo Orozco Mora (Music Technology).

Raúl Moller Jensen (Music Technology).

MASTER

UNDERGRADUATE

Ledín Rodríguez López (Music, double bass).

Héctor Emmanuel Martínez Díaz (Física).

“I am sitting in a high-dimensional room”, Media Art Xploration, New York, E.E.U.U., October, 2020. https://youtu.be/-5knNbJ_GSE