Professor Edgar Choueiri

Professor Edgar Choueiri is the President and Chief Technology Officer at BACCH Laboratories. He is the inventor behind most of BACCH Labs’s IP portfolio, including BACCH® 3D Sound, the optimal crosstalk cancellation technology for 3D audio that is the heart and sound of the company. Prof. Choueiri takes a direct, active, hands-on role in every aspect of the company from invention through product design and acts as the “tip of the spear” to drive technology to successful market penetration.

Dr. Edgar Choueiri is Professor of Applied Physics at Princeton University, where he heads the 3D Audio and Applied Acoustics (3D3A) Lab  and the Electric Propulsion and Plasma Dynamics (EPPDyL) Lab .

At the 3D3A Lab of Princeton University, he heads a team of researchers  investigating such related topics as spatial hearing, auralization, 3-D audio, binaural audio through speakers, headphones sound externalization, HRTF modeling and extraction. sound field navigation,  controllable sound fields,  and other technologies that BACCH Labs may commercialize in the future.

At EPPDyL he heads another team of researchers working on plasma propulsion for spacecraft. He has been the Principal Investigator (PI) in charge of directing and managing more than 40 competitively selected research projects, PI and Co-PI on space experiments onboard the Space Shuttle and the Russian scientific spacecraft APEX, author of more than 220 papers, book chapters and encyclopedia articles, invited speaker on more than 80 occasions, and the recipient of awards and honors including a knighthood (Order of the Cedars) by the President of Lebanon. He and his work have been the subject of more than 50 feature articles in the popular press and media, including profiles in The New Yorker magazine, Le Figaro, The Atlantic, Wiener Zeitung, BBC Radio and the Discovery Channel.

He is tenured Full Professor in the Applied Physics Group at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department, and associated faculty at the Astrophysical Sciences Dept./Program in Plasma Physics at Princeton University. He also holds a PhD in Plasma Science (1991) from Princeton University. He has advised more than a hundred students, currently advises 8 PhD students, and has graduated 14 PhD students.

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