Co-Manager of PARC Listening Lab

Carter Paprocki is from a small farming town in Northern Illinois where he spent most of his time outdoors.

Being an avid outdoorsman, he pursued his B.S. and M.S. is mechanical engineering from Michigan Technological University in the upper peninsula of Michigan. During this time, he began doing acoustic research focusing on structural vibration for Dr. Andrew Barnard. Dr. Barnard ended up moving back to

Penn State in 2022 to be the director of the acoustics department. Currently Carter is also at Penn State pursuing his PhD and his research focuses on machine learning applications for large acoustics datasets.