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Dr. Abbott's capabilities in acoustic and vibration engineering, musical acoustics, sensors and actuators, architectural acoustics and audio engineering stem from over 30 years of work in these and related fields. At BBN and SRI he led projects in acoustic and vibration engineering, then later would co-invent one of the first broadband, compact, low-cost, multi-channel active noise control systems applied to the problem of environmental noise. At Exponent/Failure Analysis Associates as a Senior Scientist and Founding Director of the firm's Manhattan office, then as Founding Director of the Acoustics and Audio Engineering Laboratory at The Cooper Union school in Manhattan.  He then worked as a Senior Acoustic Validation and Test Engineer for Apple, where he developed several new technologies related to the large volume manufacture of personal audio devices.

He received his Ph.D. in Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1991, working under the advisement of Prof. K. U. Ingard on a thesis related to sound absorption and the origins of test-to-test variations in acoustics. He was awarded the Buechner Prize and the Goodwin Medal at graduation, the highest institute award for teaching by a graduate student. Also while at MIT, he served for two years as a Research Assistant in the MIT Media Laboratory where he conducted research and development projects involving active control of room acoustics, and large-format flown-array loudspeaker systems.

Presently, he designs, develops, and deploys new, advanced audio sound systems for NIO automotive. Areas of focus include vehicle interior acoustics, sound system design, multi-channel spatialization and tuning, NVH, computer simulations, and full-scale laboratory testing.