Fellows of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society
The IEEE Grade of Fellow is conferred by the Board of Directors upon a person with an extraordinary record of accomplishments in any of the IEEE fields of interest.
The process of Elevation to IEEE Fellow starts with a formal Nomination with supporting references, followed by an evaluation and ranking done by the Society/Technical Council Fellow Evaluating Committee, and a final ranking across all Societies/Technical Councils by the IEEE Fellow Committee (52 IEEE Fellow Judges).
Normative documents for the process of Elevation to IEEE Fellow are available online: https://www.ieee.org/membership/fellows/
Nominations of highly qualified professionals engaged in activities within the scope of Oceanic Engineering are strongly encouraged each year. The professional scope for Oceanic Engineering is:
‘All applications of electrical and electronic engineering pertaining to all bodies of water. Included are design, testing and application of water oriented systems, subsystems, and components. This shall include scientific, technical and industrial applications, or other activities that contribute to the field, or utilize the techniques or products of the field, subject to modifications directed or approved by the IEEE Technical Activities Board as the art develops.’
Candidates for Nomination must be an IEEE Senior Member at the time of nomination and have been an IEEE Member for at least 5 years. Any person, including those who are not members of the IEEE, may nominate a candidate. The exceptions are IEEE Officers involved in Fellow evaluations and IEEE Staff.
IEEE Bylaw I-503.8 (Fellow Committee) limits the maximum number of elevations to Fellow Grade that can occur in a calendar year to 0.1% of IEEE voting membership on record as of 31 December of the preceding calendar year. The process is highly competitive, with less than 30% success overall, so the case made in the Nomination must be very strong.
Preparing effective Nominations:
The Nominator is the prime advocate for the Nominee, and the Nomination Form is the fundamental basis of an evaluation. The Nomination Form is reviewed and assessed by three separate audiences: the Fellow Grade References, the Society/Technical Council (S/TC) Fellow Evaluating Committee (FEC) members (Evaluators), and finally, the IEEE Fellow Committee members (Judges). Keep in mind that the Judges will not likely be familiar with the research field of the Nominee, so the case for Fellow Grade elevation must be made in language that can be understood by someone outside the field.
The Nominator has two basic tasks in preparing the Nomination: (1) making the case for elevation to Fellow Grade; and (2) selecting supporting references and endorsements.
1. Making the case: A well-documented case for elevation to Fellow Grade includes three fundamental aspects:
- The individual technical contribution(s) to the field made by the Nominee
- The impact from these contributions, which must have already occurred and be evident
- The evidence supporting the case.
Concise narratives should explicitly address these three aspects. The Nomination itself must specify the Nomination Category, the contributions of the Nominee, the impact of the contributions and the supporting evidence of the impact.
Nomination Category:
The Nominator should choose the Nomination Category that best fits the Nominee’s most impactful contribution and available evidence. There are four categories: Application Engineer/Practitioner; Educator; Research Engineer/Scientist; and Technology Leader. Statistics from recent years shows that the Research Engineer/Scientist category accounts for about 80 % of the Nominations and about the same per cent of successful Nominations. Specific information about the categories can be found at: https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/fellows-nominations.pdf
Individual Contribution(s), Impact and Evidence:
Nominators should focus on the one or two most impactful contributions and select those contributions based on what is the strongest available evidence. In Section 6 Part 1, list and develop the three most important items of tangible and verifiable evidence of the technical accomplishments pertaining to the key contribution(s) specified in the Nomination Form. Depending on the Nomination Category, an item of evidence may be (but is not limited to) a journal or conference article, a book, patent, report, standard, policy, product, service, demonstration, or installation. Sound evidence should provide an overview of how the contribution was initially introduced to the field, further technological developments, and adoption by the field at large. Examples of Peer Recognition are very useful in building support for the Nominee. Peer Recognition can take many forms: receiving awards and company/association recognitions, delivering keynotes at important conferences, receiving honorary degrees, publishing invited papers, being inducted in national academies, serving as Editor-in-Chief of a prestigious journal, etc.
An additional five items can be included to provide evidence of impact (Section 6, Part 2) of the Nomination Form). These additional items should further strengthen the identified main technical accomplishments of the Nominee. They may also present results of different categories of technical achievements linked to the main contribution. For publications, it is important to show a sustained impact of them in a specific area – not just that the Nominee is a prolific author. One effective approach is to choose evidence that documents a timeline of the evolution of the Nominee’s contribution to the field.
Finally, it’s useful to keep in mind while preparing the Nomination that the evaluators and judges will base their assessment on these aspects:
- The specific outstanding technical accomplishments−so identify these clearly
- The innovation, creativity, importance, and degree of acceptance of the contribution(s)–make sure to highlight the impact of the nominee’s accomplishment(s) on the research field
- The Nominee’s individual role in the contribution(s)
- The evidence of the technical accomplishment and the impact on the research field−make sure this is solid
- The impact of the Nominee must have already happened; speculation on potential future impact is irrelevant.
The complete documents that provide more detailed information about the Nomination and the evaluation process can be found at the links below:
https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/fellows-nominations.pdf
2. Selecting the References:
References from IEEE Fellows: The Nominator must secure at least three, but no more than five, supporting References from Fellows who are able to assess the Nominee’s contributions and their impact. The Nominator chooses the References with the goal of having them serve as advocates for the Nominee. The purpose of the IEEE Fellow References is to provide an independent evaluation of the Nominee. Therefore, References should be experts in the Nominee’s technical field and be familiar with the Nominee’s contributions and their impact, but it is not required that the Reference is personally acquainted with the Nominee.
Endorsements: Any person (including a non-IEEE member) may serve as an Endorser. Endorsements are optional, and a maximum of three may be submitted for a Nominee. They are designed to be used when they can provide an additional and unique perspective on the Nominee’s work not publicly available, and so are very useful for the Nominees in the Educator and Technical Leader categories.
The summary provided here highlights useful information from the documents provided by IEEE. Specific information about writing effective references and endorsements can be found at: https://www.ieee.org/content/dam/ieee-org/ieee/web/org/about/fellows/fellows-references-endorsements-2017.pdf. Nominators should encourage the Fellows and Endorsers to become familiar with the material in this document for preparing effective letters.
| 1970’s – 1980’s | ||
| 1974 | Van Trees, Harry | R3 -Southeastern USA |
| For contributions to teaching and research in the detection, estimation and modulation theory area, and the design of military communications systems. | ||
| 1982 | La Rosa, R | R1 -Northeastern USA |
| For contributions in the field of electron optics, traveling-wave tubes, and particle acceleration. | ||
| 1983 | Cox, Henry | R2 -Eastern USA |
| For technical leadership in underwater research and development. | ||
| 1983 | Herz, Eric | R5 -Southwestern USA |
| For contributions to the development and management of information systems for testing aerospace vehicles and for valuable services to the Institute. | ||
| 1983 | Powers, E | R6 -Western USA |
| For contributions to the analysis of data relating to nonlinear phenomena in materials such as controlled thermonuclear plasmas. | ||
| 1983 | Swift, Calvin | R1 -Northeastern USA |
| For contributions to the area of microwave remote sensing of the oceans. | ||
| 1984 | Boerner, Wolfgang-martin | R4 -Central USA |
| For advancement in inverse methods in sensing systems and in high-resolution broad band Doppler radar polarimetry. | ||
| 1984 | Mochizuki, Hitoshi | R10 -Asia and Pacific |
| For contributions to maritime communications systems. | ||
| 1988 | Carter, G Clifford | R1 -Northeastern USA |
| For contributions to the theory of coherence and time delay estimation. | ||
| 1989 | Baggeroer, Arthur | R1 -Northeastern USA |
| For contributions to advanced array processing and underwater acoustics. | ||
| 1989 | Ramachandran, V | R7 -Canada |
| For contributions to theory of multivariable networks with applications to two-dimensional digital filters. | ||
| 1990’s | ||
| 1991 | Spindel, Robert | R6 -Western USA |
| For leadership in ocean engineering, and the advancement of the technology for ocean acoustic tomography. | ||
| 1991 | Weissman, David | R1 -Northeastern USA |
| For leadership in the development of radar techniques to measure ocean surface wave parameters and surface winds. | ||
| 1993 | Engelson, Irving | R1 -Northeastern USA |
| For management leadership of IEEE technical activities worldwide. | ||
| 1993 | Hallikainen, Martti | R8 -Europe |
| For contributions to microwave remote sensing of forests, snow, and sea ice. | ||
| 1994 | Moura, Jose | R2 -Eastern USA |
| For contributions to nonlinear filtering and model-based signal processing. | ||
| 1997 | Ohte, Akira | R10 -Asia and Pacific |
| For contributions to and leadership in the development of a fully automatic nuclear quadrupole resonance thermometer and its application to precise temperature measurement. | ||
| 1998 | Alspach, Daniel | R6 -Western USA |
| For leadership in the theoretical development of non-linear estimation theory and its practical applications to multiple target data association and tracking problems in ocean surveillance. | ||
| 1998 | Avery, Susan | R5 -Southwestern USA |
| For scientific and educational leadership and research in atmospheric science | ||
| 1999 | El-hawary, Ferial | R7 -Canada |
| For contributions to application of digital system concepts to underwater dynamic motion estimation and marine seismic methods. | ||
| 1999 | Jones, W Linwood | R3 -Southeastern USA |
| For contributions to the development and application of active microwave remote sensing technology for satellite oceanography. | ||
| 1999 | Candy, James | R6 -Western USA |
| For contributions to model-based ocean acoustic signal processing. | ||
| 2000’s | ||
| 2001 | Vadus, Joseph | R2 -Eastern USA |
| For contributions to ocean technology, engineering, and research. | ||
| 2002 | Maeda, Hisaaki | R10 -Asia and Pacific |
| For contributions to the theory of floating structures and wave energy absorption. | ||
| 2003 | Bannon, Robert | R2 -Eastern USA |
| For leadership in ocean engineering and the practical application of sensor technologies. | ||
| 2003 | Worcester, Peter | R6 -Western USA |
| For leadership in acoustic techniques for observing the ocean. | ||
| 2004 | Fouquet, Julie | R6 -Western USA |
| For contributions to optical switch and light-emitting device technologies. | ||
| 2004 | Kirkham, Harold | R6 -Western USA |
| For leadership in the field of optical measurements for power systems | ||
| 2005 | Lynch, James | R1 -Northeastern USA |
| For contributions to sound transmission in shallow coastal waters for mapping bottom boundary layer characterizations. | ||
| 2005 | Williams, Albert | R1 -Northeastern USA |
| For contributions to the development of instrumentation for measuring oceanic processes. | ||
| 2005 | Yuh, Junku | R6 -Western USA |
| For contributions to autonomous underwater robots. | ||
| 2006 | Garello, Rene | R8 -Europe |
| For contributions to signal processing applied to remote sensing of the ocean. | ||
| 2006 | Ledrew, Ellsworth | R7 -Canada |
| For contributions to environmental remote sensing sciences. | ||
| 2007 | Ehrich Leonard, Naomi | R1 -Northeastern USA |
| For contributions to control of underwater vehicles. | ||
| 2007 | Jemison, William | R1 -Northeastern USA |
| For contributions to microwave photonics for radar and communications. | ||
| 2007 | Jones, Colin | R3 -Southeastern USA |
| For contributions to deep ocean exploration, search and recovery and salvage. | ||
| 2007 | Mitra, Urbashi | R6 -Western USA |
| For contributions to multiuser wideband digital communication systems | ||
| 2007 | Ura, Tamaki | R10 -Asia and Pacific |
| For contributions to autonomous underwater vehicle technologies. | ||
| 2007 | Zorzi, Michele | R8 -Europe |
| For contributions in the area of energy efficient protocol design. | ||
| 2008 | Mikhalevsky, Peter | R2 -Eastern USA |
| For contributions to ocean acoustics and tomography. | ||
| 2008 | Panetta, Karen | R1 -Northeastern USA |
| For leadership in engineering education and curriculum development to attract, retain, and advance women in engineering. | ||
| 2008 | Pearlman, Jay | R6 -Western USA |
| For leadership in space-based earth observing systems. | ||
| 2009 | Fall, Kevin | R6 -Western USA |
| For contributions to Internet architectures and protocols in challenging environments. | ||
| 2009 | Kasahara, Junzo | R10 -Asia and Pacific |
| For contributions to submarine seismic technology. | ||
| 2009 | Murch, Ross | R10 -Asia and Pacific |
| For contributions to multiple antenna systems for wireless communications. | ||
| 2010’s | ||
| 2010 | Chapman, Ross | R7 -Canada |
| For contributions to geoacoustic characterization of ocean bottom environments. | ||
| 2010 | Singer, Andrew | R4 -Central USA |
| For contributions to signal processing techniques for digital communication. | ||
| 2010 | Stojanovic, Milica | R1 -Northeastern |
| For contributions to underwater acoustic communications. | ||
| 2010 | Vesecky, John | R6 -Western USA |
| For contributions to marine remote sensing and technology. | ||
| 2011 | Barrick, D | R6 -Western USA |
| For development of high frequency radars and applications. | ||
| 2011 | Sukhatme, Gaurav | R6 -Western USA |
| For contributions to multi-robot systems. | ||
| 2012 | Heron, Malcolm | R10 -Asia and Pacific |
| For contributions to the application of radio science to oceanic and terrestrial remote sensing. | ||
| 2012 | Negahdaripour, S | R3 -Southeastern USA |
| For contributions to underwater computer vision. | ||
| 2013 | Zorpette, Glenn | R1 -Northeastern USA |
| For contributions to professional communication in electrical and electronics technology. | ||
| 2014 | Leonard, John | R1 -Northeastern USA |
| For contributions to navigation and mapping for mobile robots and autonomous underwater vehicles. | ||
| 2015 | Foote, Kenneth | R1 -Northeastern USA |
| For contributions to quantification of underwater sound scattering. | ||
| 2015 | Zheng, Yahong | R5 -Southwestern USA |
| For contributions to channel modeling and equalization for wireless communications. | ||
| 2016 | Fossen, Thor | R8 -Europe |
| For contributions to modelling and controlling of marine crafts | ||
| 2017 | Caiti, Andrea | R8 -Europe, |
| For contributions to geo-acoustic inversion and autonomous underwater vehicles. | ||
| 2017 | Kyriakopoulos, K | R8 -Europe |
| For contributions to robot motion planning and control of multi-robot systems. | ||
| 2017 | Migliaccio, Maurizio | R8 -Europe |
| For contributions to marine and maritime polarimetric synthetic aperture radar | ||
| 2020 | Yoerger, Dana | R8 -Europe |
| For contributions to marine robotics and the development of autonomous underwater vehicles that provide powerful tools for deep ocean science | ||
| 2021 | Yoerger, Dana | R8 -Europe |
| For development of autonomous underwater vehicles for deep ocean exploration and science | ||
| 2022 | Hanuman Singh | |
| For development of localization and mapping techniques and autonomous systems for marine and polar applications | ||
Suleman Mazhar has been working as a professor in Information & Communication Engineering at Harbin Engineering University (China) since July 2019. He did PhD from Tokyo University (Japan) and postdoctorate from Georgetown University (Washington DC, USA). He had BS-CS from FAST-NUCES (Lahore) and MS from GIK Institute (Pakistan). He is TYSP young scientist fellow (Ministry of Science & Technology China) and have won several research grants from international organizations such as DAAD (Germany), ICIMOD (Nepal), NRPU (Higher Education Commission Pakistan), WWF (Worldwide Fund for Nature) Pakistan. His research focus is deep learning and signal processing applications for environmental monitoring, with particular focus on underwater acoustics, and marine mammal conservation. He is a reviewer for professional journals such as Journal of Acoustical Society (America), IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Sensors Journal, Applied Acoustics, IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.
Peng Ren is a full professor with the College of Oceanography and Space Informatics, China University of Petroleum (East China). He is the director of Qingdao International Research Center for Intelligent Forecast and Detection of Oceanic Catastrophes. He received the K. M. Scott Prize from the University of York, the Natural Science award (first rank) from China Institute of Electronics, and the Eduardo Caianiello Best Student Paper Award from 18th International Conference on Image Analysis and Processing as one co-author. He has served as an associate editor of IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
Mohd Rizal Arshad is a full professor at the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering at Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM), Malaysia, where he specializes in ocean robotics technology and intelligent system. He received his B.Eng. in Medical Electronics & Instrumentation and PhD in Electronic Engineering from University of Liverpool, UK in 1994 and 1999, respectively. He completed his MSc. in Electronic Control Engineering from the University of Salford, UK in Dec 1995. He has supervised many postgraduate students and published extensively in local and international publications. He is a senior member of the IEEE, and was awarded IEEE OES Presidential Award in 2019.
Itzik Klein is an Assistant Professor, heading the Autonomous Navigation and Sensor Fusion Lab, at the Charney School of Marine Sciences, Hatter Department of Marine Technologies, University of Haifa. He is an IEEE Senior Member and a member of the IEEE Journal of Indoor and Seamless Positioning and Navigation (J-ISPIN) Editorial Board. Prior to joining the University of Haifa, he worked at leading companies in Israel on navigation topics for more than 15 years. He has a wide range of experience in navigation systems and sensor fusion from both industry and academic perspectives. His research interests lie in the intersection of artificial intelligence with inertial sensing, sensor fusion, and autonomous underwater vehicles.
John R. Potter (IEEE M’94, SM’02, F’18) graduated in the previous century with a joint honours Mathematics and Physics Degree from Bristol and a PhD. in Glaciology and Oceanography from Cambridge, UK studying Antarctic ice mass balance, where he spent four consecutive summers. This work helped underscore the non-linear fragility of polar ice to climate change and led to him receiving the Polar Medal from Queen Elizabeth II in 1988.
Nick is a Visiting Fellow at the UK National Oceanographic Center, Southampton His nomination was endorsed by the Underwater Acoustics Technology Committee. He had worked as a Research Associate and Lecturer at University of Birmingham and has been working as a Research Scientist at the Applied Research Laboratory, University of Texas, Austin. He has also served as a Program Officer at the Office of Naval Research Global. He is a senior member of IEEE (OES) and a Fellow of Acoustical Society of America (ASA). Nick has also been serving as Assoc. Editor for IEEE JoE and JASA. He is widely acknowledged for his expertise are seabed acoustics, parametric array modeling, sonar beamformer, underwater signal processing.
Maurizio Migliaccio (M’91-SM’00-F’17) is Full professor of Electromagnetics at Università di Napoli Parthenope (Italy) and was Affiliated Full Professor at NOVA Southeastern University, Fort Lauderdale, FL (USA). He has been teaching Microwave Remote Sensing since 1994. He was visiting scientist at Deutsche Forschungsanstalt fur Lüft und Raumfahrt (DLR), Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. He was member of the Italian Space Agency (ASI) scientific committee. He was member of the ASI CosmoSkyMed second generation panel. He was e-geos AdCom member. He was Italian delegate of the ESA PB-EO board. He was Member of South Africa Expert Review Panel for Space Exploration. He serves as reviewer for the UE, Italian Research Ministry (MIUR), NCST, Kazakhstan and Hong Kong Research board. He lectured in USA, Canada, Brazil, China, Hong Kong, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, Switzerland and Italy. He was Italian delegate at UE COST SMOS Mode Action. He is listed in the Italian Top Scientists. He is an IEEE Trans. Geoscience and Remote Sensing AE, International Journal of Remote Sensing AE, and was IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering AE Special Issue on Radar for Marine and Maritime Remote Sensing, IEEE JSTARS AE of the Special Issue on CosmoSKyMed, Member of the Indian Journal of Radio & Space Physics Editorial board. His main current scientific interests cover SAR sea oil slick and man-made target monitoring, remote sensing for marine and coastal applications, remote sensing for agriculture monitoring, polarimetry, inverse problems for resolution enhancement, reverberating chambers. He published about 160 peer-reviewed journal papers on remote sensing and applied electromagnetics.
He has developed various types of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and related application technologies including navigation methods, a new sensing method using a chemical sensor, precise seafloor mapping methods, a precise seabed positioning system with a resolution of a few centimeters, a new sensing system of the thickness of cobalt-rich crust; and more. He has shown, by using these technologies that AUVs are practicable and valuable tools for deep-sea exploration.
Donna Kocak has had an outstanding career in defense and scientific projects developing and applying solutions in subsea optics, imaging and robotics. She graduated with an M.Sc in Computer Science in 1997 from the University of Central Florida; an MBA in 2008 from the University of Florida; and M.Sc in Industrial Engineering in 2011 from the University of Central Florida. She is currently a Senior Scientist, Advanced Concepts Engineering, and Fellow at the Harris Corporation in Melbourne, Florida, where she has developed novel optical imaging and communication solutions for under-sea defense and scientific projects. Prior to 2008 Donna Kocak was Founder and President of Green Sky Imaging, LLC (GSI) who developed laser/video photogrammetry software for underwater inspection and survey. Her earlier career positions were with Naval Training Systems Center, Florida; Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Florida; eMerge Interactive; and the Advanced Technologies Group in Florida.
John Potter has a Joint Honours degree in Mathematics and Physics from Bristol University in the UK and a PhD in Glaciology and Oceanography from the University of Cambridge on research in the Antarctic, for which he was awarded the Polar Medal in 1988. John has worked on polar oceanography, underwater acoustics, ambient noise (including imaging), marine mammals, communications, IoUT, autonomous vehicles and strategic development. He has 40 years’ international experience working at the British Antarctic Survey in the UK, NATO in Italy, SIO in California, NUS in Singapore and most recently at NTNU in Norway. John is a Fellow of the IEEE and MTS, an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, IEEE OES Distinguished Lecturer, PADI Master Scuba Diver Trainer & an International Fellow of the Explorer’s Club.
Dr. James V. Candy is the Chief Scientist for Engineering and former Director of the Center for Advanced Signal & Image Sciences at the University of California, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Candy received a commission in the USAF in 1967 and was a Systems Engineer/Test Director from 1967 to 1971. He has been a Researcher at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory since 1976 holding various positions including that of Project Engineer for Signal Processing and Thrust Area Leader for Signal and Control Engineering. Educationally, he received his B.S.E.E. degree from the University of Cincinnati and his M.S.E. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Florida, Gainesville. He is a registered Control System Engineer in the state of California. He has been an Adjunct Professor at San Francisco State University, University of Santa Clara, and UC Berkeley, Extension teaching graduate courses in signal and image processing. He is an Adjunct Full-Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Dr. Candy is a Fellow of the IEEE and a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) and elected as a Life Member (Fellow) at the University of Cambridge (Clare Hall College). He is a member of Eta Kappa Nu and Phi Kappa Phi honorary societies. He was elected as a Distinguished Alumnus by the University of Cincinnati. Dr. Candy received the IEEE Distinguished Technical Achievement Award for the “development of model-based signal processing in ocean acoustics.” Dr. Candy was selected as a IEEE Distinguished Lecturer for oceanic signal processing as well as presenting an IEEE tutorial on advanced signal processing available through their video website courses. He was nominated for the prestigious Edward Teller Fellowship at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Dr. Candy was awarded the Interdisciplinary Helmholtz-Rayleigh Silver Medal in Signal Processing/Underwater Acoustics by the Acoustical Society of America for his technical contributions. He has published over 225 journal articles, book chapters, and technical reports as well as written three texts in signal processing, “Signal Processing: the Model-Based Approach,” (McGraw-Hill, 1986), “Signal Processing: the Modern Approach,” (McGraw-Hill, 1988), “Model-Based Signal Processing,” (Wiley/IEEE Press, 2006) and “Bayesian Signal Processing: Classical, Modern and Particle Filtering” (Wiley/IEEE Press, 2009). He was the General Chairman of the inaugural 2006 IEEE Nonlinear Statistical Signal Processing Workshop held at the Corpus Christi College, University of Cambridge. He has presented a variety of short courses and tutorials sponsored by the IEEE and ASA in Applied Signal Processing, Spectral Estimation, Advanced Digital Signal Processing, Applied Model-Based Signal Processing, Applied Acoustical Signal Processing, Model-Based Ocean Acoustic Signal Processing and Bayesian Signal Processing for IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society/ASA. He has also presented short courses in Applied Model-Based Signal Processing for the SPIE Optical Society. He is currently the IEEE Chair of the Technical Committee on “Sonar Signal and Image Processing” and was the Chair of the ASA Technical Committee on “Signal Processing in Acoustics” as well as being an Associate Editor for Signal Processing of ASA (on-line JASAXL). He was recently nominated for the Vice Presidency of the ASA and elected as a member of the Administrative Committee of IEEE OES. His research interests include Bayesian estimation, identification, spatial estimation, signal and image processing, array signal processing, nonlinear signal processing, tomography, sonar/radar processing and biomedical applications.
Kenneth Foote is a Senior Scientist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from The George Washington University in 1968, and a Ph.D. in Physics from Brown University in 1973. He was an engineer at Raytheon Company, 1968-1974; postdoctoral scholar at Loughborough University of Technology, 1974-1975; research fellow and substitute lecturer at the University of Bergen, 1975-1981. He began working at the Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, in 1979; joined the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in 1999. His general area of expertise is in underwater sound scattering, with applications to the quantification of fish, other aquatic organisms, and physical scatterers in the water column and on the seafloor. In developing and transitioning acoustic methods and instruments to operations at sea, he has worked from 77°N to 55°S.
René Garello, professor at Télécom Bretagne, Fellow IEEE, co-leader of the TOMS (Traitements, Observations et Méthodes Statistiques) research team, in Pôle CID of the UMR CNRS 3192 Lab-STICC.
Professor Mal Heron is Adjunct Professor in the Marine Geophysical Laboratory at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia, and is CEO of Portmap Remote Ocean Sensing Pty Ltd. His PhD work in Auckland, New Zealand, was on radio-wave probing of the ionosphere, and that is reflected in his early ionospheric papers. He changed research fields to the scattering of HF radio waves from the ocean surface during the 1980s. Through the 1990s his research has broadened into oceanographic phenomena which can be studied by remote sensing, including HF radar and salinity mapping from airborne microwave radiometers . Throughout, there have been one-off papers where he has been involved in solving a problem in a cognate area like medical physics, and paleobiogeography. Occasionally, he has diverted into side-tracks like a burst of papers on the effect of bushfires on radio communications. His present project of the Australian Coastal Ocean Radar Network (ACORN) is about the development of new processing methods and applications of HF radar data to address oceanography problems. He is currently promoting the use of high resolution VHF ocean radars, based on the PortMap high resolution radar.
Hanu Singh graduated B.S. ECE and Computer Science (1989) from George Mason University and Ph.D. (1995) from MIT/Woods Hole.He led the development and commercialization of the Seabed AUV, nine of which are in operation at other universities and government laboratories around the world. He was technical lead for development and operations for Polar AUVs (Jaguar and Puma) and towed vehicles(Camper and Seasled), and the development and commercialization of the Jetyak ASVs, 18 of which are currently in use. He was involved in the development of UAS for polar and oceanographic applications, and high resolution multi-sensor acoustic and optical mapping with underwater vehicles on over 55 oceanographic cruises in support of physical oceanography, marine archaeology, biology, fisheries, coral reef studies, geology and geophysics and sea-ice studies. He is an accomplished Research Student advisor and has made strong collaborations across the US (including at MIT, SIO, Stanford, Columbia LDEO) and internationally including in the UK, Australia, Canada, Korea, Taiwan, China, Japan, India, Sweden and Norway. Hanu Singh is currently Chair of the IEEE Ocean Engineering Technology Committee on Autonomous Marine Systems with responsibilities that include organizing the biennial IEEE AUV Conference, 2008 onwards. Associate Editor, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 2007-2011. Associate editor, Journal of Field Robotics 2012 onwards.
Milica Stojanovic graduated from the University of Belgrade, Serbia, in 1988, and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in Boston, in 1991 and 1993. She was a Principal Scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 2008 joined Northeastern University, where she is currently a Professor of electrical and computer engineering. She is also a Guest Investigator at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Milica’s research interests include digital communications theory, statistical signal processing and wireless networks, and their applications to underwater acoustic systems. She has made pioneering contributions to underwater acoustic communications, and her work has been widely cited. She is a Fellow of the IEEE, and serves as an Associate Editor for its Journal of Oceanic Engineering (and in the past for Transactions on Signal Processing and Transactions on Vehicular Technology). She also serves on the Advisory Board of the IEEE Communication Letters, and chairs the IEEE Ocean Engineering Society’s Technical Committee for Underwater Communication, Navigation and Positioning. Milica is the recipient of the 2015 IEEE/OES Distinguished Technical Achievement Award.
Dr. Paul C. Hines was born and raised in Glace Bay, Cape Breton. From 1977-1981 he attended Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, graduating with a B.Sc. (Hon) in Engineering-Physics.