Wayland Dong
Wayland Dong joined Westside Acoustics & Vibration Engineering in 2025 and brings twenty-seven years of experience as an acoustician, consultant, and project manager to the team.
With his education in physics, Wayland has long been a technical expert and innovator, supporting a wide variety of projects across his career. He has been instrumental in development of statistical analysis techniques that provide clients with robust design recommendations and an understanding of potential risk with a desired design direction.
Wayland has experience in every building sector and a deep project portfolio of multifamily residential and hospitality projects. He has served as designer of apartments, condominiums, hotels, resorts, educational facilities, healthcare facilities, performing arts facilities, and governmental facilities. He has consulted on projects requiring environmental impact reports, California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) reports, and vibration assessment. Wayland and colleague John LoVerde are the first and only consultants in the U.S. to model, construct, and measure an in-ground wave barrier trench designed to mitigate ground-borne vibration transmission.
Along with co-author John LoVerde, Wayland developed a revolutionary two-dimensional impact noise assessment method, published in the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America (2017). This approach resolves many of the impact noise rating problems that plagued the existing metrics for over 60 years. The JASA paper is the theoretical foundation for the ASTM classification standards for low- and high-frequency impact noise metrics, E3222 and E3207. Wayland and John further developed classification indices for the new metrics that can be used as a design tool, useful to acoustical designers, code enforcement officials, owners, and occupants alike.
Along with Wayland’s client work, he has participated in research, presenting at home and abroad for over 25 years. Wayland and his co-authors have presented original work in the fields of architectural and environmental acoustics, on subjects such as airborne and impact sound isolation, heavy weight impacts, building systems noise, and statistical approaches for both architectural acoustics and environmental noise, keeping Wayland on the cutting edge of the field.
Wayland serves as Secretary of the Paul S. Veneklasen Research Foundation. The Foundation is a non-profit whose purpose is to promote furtherance of acoustical science through research and education. The foundation has partnered with universities in to fund research in architectural acoustics, medical ultrasound, microphone technology, psychoacoustics, and animal bioacoustics. The Foundation has sponsored student work at graduate and undergraduate levels and has funded an open-source acoustics textbook to facilitate access to acoustics education across a wider audience.
Education
- M.S. Physics: California State University
- B.S. Physics: University of California Los Angeles
Affiliations
Acoustical Society of America
International Institute of Acoustics and Vibration
Paul S. Veneklasen Research Foundation, Secretary
Patents
Methods and Systems for Sound File Creation U.S. Patent No. US 10,880,663 B1
December 29, 2020