OES OFFICERS
IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Newsletter, June 2019
The OES BEACON is published four times a year as a benefit to the membership of the IEEE Ocean Engineering Society. The OES Beacon is printed and distributed from IEEE headquarters in New York City, New York, USA.
Editor-in-Chief:
Harumi Sugimatsu
harumis@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Co-Editor-in-Chief:
Robert L. Wernli
wernli@ieee.org
Associate Editors:
Masakazu Arima
Kenichi Asakawa
Toshihiro Maki
Takumi Matsuda
Katsunori Mizuno
Takeshi Nakatani
Hisashi Shiba
Farley Shane
Blair Thornton
Contributing Editors:
Australia—Mal Heron
Canada—Ferial El-Hawary
France—Philippe Courmontague
Germany—Christoph Waldmann
India—M. A Atmanand
Japan—Blair Thornton
Korea—Son Cheol Yu
Scotland—John Watson
Singapore—Venu Pallayil
Taiwan—Jenhwa Guo
USA—Stan Chamberlain
IEEE OCEANIC ENGINEERING SOCIETY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
President
CHRISTIAN DE MOUSTIER
cpm@ieee.org
Vice President Technical Activities
MALCOLM HERON
mal.heron@ieee.org
Vice President Professional Activities
JIM COLLINS
j.s.collins@ieee.org
Vice President Workshops & Symposia
PHILIPPE COURMOUNTAGNE
courmontagne.at.home@gmail.com
Vice President OCEANS
JOHN WATSON
j.watson@abdn.ac.uk
Secretary
STEPHEN WOOD
swood@fit.edu
Treasurer
ELIZABETH L. CREED
elcreed@ieee.org
Journal Editor-in Chief
MANDAR CHITRE
mchitre@ieee.org
Junior Past President
RENÉ GARELLO
r.garello@ieee.org
Senior Past President
JERRY C. CARROLL
jerrycortez@charter.net
ELECTED ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
2017–2019
BRANDY ARMSTRONG
brandy.armstrong.us@ieee.org
JIM CANDY
tsoftware@aol.com
SHYAM MADHUSUDHANA
shyamblast@gmail.com
JOÃO ALVES
Joao.Alves@cmre.nato.int
KEN FOOTE
kfoote@ieee.org
LIAN LIAN
llian@sjtu.edu.cn
2018–2020
GERARDO G. ACOSTA
ggacosta@fio.unicen.edu.ar
FAUSTO FERREIRA
Fausto.Ferreira@cmre.nato.int
WILLIAM J. KIRKWOOD
kiwi@mbari.org
VENUGOPALAN (VENU) PALLAYIL
venugopalan.pallayil@gmail.com
HARUMI SUGIMATSU
harumis@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
ROBERT L. WERNLI
rwernli@san.rr.com
2019–2021
M.A. ATMANAND
atma@niot.res.in
FERIAL EL-HAWARY
F.El-Hawary@ieee.org
STEPHEN M. HOLT
smdholt@gmail.com
MARINNA MARTINI
mmartini@ieee.org
JAY PEARLMAN
jay.pearlman@fourbridges.org
CHRISTOPHER WHITT
christopher@whitt.ca
IEEE OCEANIC ENGINEERING EX-OFFICIO ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEE
Co-Editors-in-Chief, OES BEACON
HARUMI SUGIMATSU
University of Tokyo
harumis@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
ROBERT WERNLI
First Centurion Enterprises
wernli@ieee.org
Editor, OES e-newsletter
TOSHIHIRO MAKI
University of Tokyo
maki@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Webmaster
STEVE HOLT
sholt@ieee.org
Student Activities
BRANDY ARMSTRONG
brandy.armstrong@gmail.com
Student Branch Chapter (SBC) Support Program
JIM COLLINS
j.s.collins@ieee.org
Membership Development
JIM COLLINS
j.s.collins@ieee.org
Fellow Evaluating Committee
N. ROSS CHAPMAN
chapman@uvic.ca
Women in Engineering
BRANDY ARMSTRONG
Brandy.Armstrong.US@ieee.org
Young Professional
FRÉDÉRIC MAUSSANG
frederic.maussang@telecom-bretagne.eu
Technology Committee Coordinator
SHYAM MADHUSUDHANA
shyamm@ieee.org
Reconnaissance Committee
BRIAN HORSBURGH
horsburgh.brian5@gmail.com
Joint OCEANS Advisory Board (JOAB)
BILL KIRKWOOD
kiwi@mbari.org
Awards, Nominations
RENÉ GARELLO
r.garello@ieee.org
IEEE USA R&D Policy
JIM BARBERA
jimbarbera@mindspring.com
Chapter Coordinator
GERARDO G. ACOSTA
gerardo.acosta@ieee.org
Professional Activities Commit- tees for Engineers (PACE)
JIM COLLINS
j.s.collins@ieee.org
CHAPTER CHAIRS REGION 1-6, USA
PROVIDENCE
Albert J. (Sandy) Williams III
awilliams@whoi.edu
WASHINGTON
James G. Roche
james.roche.ieee@gmail.com
HOUSTON
Celsa Pachlhofer
celsa.canedo@sbcglobal.net
SAN DIEGO
Karen Dubey
karen.dubey@gmail.com
SEATTLE
Gerald (Skip) Denn
skip.denny@ieee.org
HAWAII
Mark Rognstad
mrognsta@hawaii.edu
REGION 7, CANADA
CANADIAN ATLANTIC
Ferial E. El-Hawary
f.el-hawary@ieee.org
NEWFOUNDLAND & LABRADOR
Neil Riggs
neil.riggs@ieee.org
OTTAWA
Yifeng Zhou
yifeng.zhou@crc.gc.ca
QUEBEC
Georges Fournier
georges.fournier@drdc-rddc.gc.ca
TORONTO OPEN
VANCOUVER
Serdar Soylu
ssoylu@cellula.com
VICTORIA
Tom Dakin
TDakin@UVic.ca
REGION 8, EUROPE, MIDDLE EAST & AFRICA
FRANCE
Philippe Courmontagne
philippe.courmontagne@isen.fr
ITALY
Andrea Trucco
trucco@ieee.org
NORWAY OPEN
PORTUGAL
Anibal Matos
anibal@fe.up.pt
SPAIN
Joaquin del Rio Fernandez
joaquin.del.rio@upc.edu
TUNISIA
Nizar Rokbani
nizar.rokbani@ieee.org
UKRI
Nick Wright
nick.wright@newcastle.ac.uk
REGION 9, SOUTH AMERICA
ARGENTINA
Andrés Dorta
asdorta@yahoo.com
ECUADOR
Karen Aguirre R.
kareagui@espol.edu.ec
REGION 10, ASIA & PACIFIC
AUSTRALIA
Mal Heron
mal.heron@ieee.org
INDIA
R. (Venkat) Venkatesan
venkat@niot.res.in
JAPAN
Katsuyoshi Kawaguchi
kawak@jamstec.go.jp
NEW SOUTH WALES
Eric Ferguson
Efer2780@uni.sydney.edu.au
KOREA
Son-Cheol Yu
nabi1995@gmail.com
MALAYSIA
Mohd Rizal Arshad
dr.rizal@gmail.com
SHANGHAI
Lian Lian
llian@sjtu.edu.cn
SINGAPORE
Hari Vishnu
harivishnu@gmail.com
TAIWAN
Forng C. Chiu
fcchiu@ntu.edu.tw
TECHNOLOGY COMMITTEE CHAIRS
AUTONOMOUS MARITIME SYSTEMS (AMS)
HANU SINGH
ha.singh@northeastern.edu
CURRENT, WAVE AND TURBULENCE MEASURE- MENT AND APPLICATIONS
HUGH ROARTY
hroarty@marine.rutgers.edu
DATA ANALYTICS, INTEGRATION AND MODELING
GOPU POTTY
gpotty@uri.edu
OCEAN OBSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAIN- ABILITY
JAY PEARLMAN
jay.pearlman@ieee.org
OCEAN REMOTE SENSING
RENE GARELLO
r.garello@ieee.org
OCEAN SUSTAINABLE ENERGY SYSTEMS
SEAMUS GARVEY
seamus.garvey@nottingham.ac.uk
POLAR OCEANS
ANDREAS MAROUCHOS
Andreas.Marouchos@csiro.au
STANDARDS
KENNETH FOOTE
kfoote@whoi.edu
SUBSEA OPTICS AND VISION
FRANK CAIMI
f.m.caimi@ieee.org
UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS
KENNETH FOOTE
kfoote@whoi.edu
UNDERWATER CABLES AND CONNECTORS
M.A.ATMANAND
atma@niot.res.in
UNDERWATER COMMUNICATION, NAVIGATION AND POSITIONING
MILICA STOJANAVIC
millitsa@ece.neu.edu
JOURNAL ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Filippo Arrichiello
Kenichi Asakawa
M.A. Atmanand
Ralf Bachmayer
Edmund F. Brekke
Brad Buckham
Nicholas Chotiros
Tory Cobb
Brandon Cochenour
Nuno Cruz
Lee Culver
Eric Delory
Roee Diamant
Brendan Englot
Kenneth Foote
Eric Gill
Joao Gomes
Merrick Haller
Michael Hayes
Wei He
Alan Hunter
Toshihiro Maki
Eliza Michaloupoulou
Andrey Morozov
Barbara Nicolas
Costas Pelekanakis
John Potter
Gopu Potty
Mike Richardson
Roland Romeiser
Tetjana Ross
Torstein Sæbø
Dick Simons
Joao de Sousa
Milica Stojanovic
Ken Takagi
Blair Thornton
Harris Tsimenidis
Andrea Trucco
Karl von Ellenrieder
Kathleen Wage
John Watson
Wen Xu
Fumin Zhang
Peng Zhang
Haiyong Zheng
Rosa Zheng
STUDENT BRANCH CHAPTER ADVISORS AND CHAIRS
Escuela Superior Politecnica Del Litoral
Advisor: Altamirano Luis
Chair: Aguirre Karen Elizabeth
Hong Kong City University
Advisor: Cheung Chak Chung
Chair: Sze Tsz Ho
Panimalar Institute of Technology – CHENNAI
Advisor: M Arun
Chair: K P Adithya, R Vijayalakshmi
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Advisor: Lian Lian
Chair: Cao Junliang
The University of Southern Mississippi
Advisor: Mustafa Kemal Cambazoglu
Chair: Laura Hode
Strathclyde University
Advisor: Andrea Coraddu
Chair: Olena Karpenko
University of Zagreb
Advisor: Nikola Miskovic
Chair: Anja Babic´
Western Washington University
Advisor: Lund John A
Chair: Kintzele James Lee
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.