We have lost three OES colleagues in September 2018. Jean-Pierre Hermand, Edmund Sullivan and
John E. Ehrenberg. The following obituaries for them were prepared by their families and friends.
Obituary of Professor Jean-Pierre Hermand
James V Candy, Patricia Candy,
John Potter and Mal Heron
JEAN-PIERRE HERMAND passed away suddenly on September 3, 2018. He was a father, professor, mentor, colleague and a dear friend. He leaves behind three children and his beloved wife, Dominique. As a professor at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium, he was always willing to share his deep knowledge of ocean acoustics ranging from propagation theory and practice to the signal processing of truly challenging problems. As a mentor, he willingly provided any information through his experience as the lead investigator on many oceanic projects while he was at the NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) in La Spezia, Italy. He was also Principal Investigator as Researcher/Director at the Environmental HydroAcoustics Laboratory (EHL) of the university.
Educationally, he received his Master’s degree in Electrical and Mechanical Engineering and a Ph.D. degree in Applied Sciences from ULB in 1981 and 1994, respectively.
As a Professor of Acoustics at ULB, he founded the EHL in 2001, which merged in 2012 to form the Laboratories of Image, Signal processing and Acoustics (LISA) where he was the Director of Research.
Professor Hermand was both a Fellow of the IEEE, conferred in 2009, as well as a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), conferred in 2007. Additionally, he was a Distinguished Lecturer for the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) where he provided many enlightening lectures throughout the world on his passion of geoacoustic inversion and acoustical signal/image processing. A recent survey showed that Jean-Pierre was the most active Distinguished Lecturer on the OES roster.
Professor Jean-Pierre Hermand was the Chair of the Ocean Signal and Image Processing Technology Committee of the OES as well as the Leader of, and POC for, the ‘Acoustics and Signal Processi
ng’ Technical Committee Affinity Group. From 2011 to 2016, he served as an elected Administrative Committee member. Professor Hermand pioneered the OES sponsorship of the biannual “Rio Acoustics Conference’’ as well as motivating many collaborative efforts in Latin America, Australia and China. He organized the First and Second Workshops on Experimental Acoustic Inversion Methods for Exploration of the Shallow Water Environment in 1999 and 2004. In 2013, he co-created the Latin American and the Caribbean IEEE/OES Acoustics in Underwater Geosciences Symposium which was also held in 2015 and 2017.
Historically, Professor Hermand has held several positions at the CMRE, formerly known as the SACLANT Undersea Research Centre (SACLANTCEN). He conducted experimental and theoretical research in underwater acoustics and electromagnetics, mostly on inverse problems. In 1991, he became the Principal Investigator of a grant from the US Office of Naval Research to develop environmentally adaptive sonar processing at the Naval Underwater Systems Centre, New London, CT. In 1993, he was appointed by the SACLANTCEN Environmental Research Division to lead research on acoustic sensing and inversion techniques for the characterization of shallow marine sediment. He has taught image processing at the Free University of Nuoro, Sardinia, and acoustical oceanography at the Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy. He has received grants from research funding agencies and government institutions of France, The Netherlands, The United States of America and Australia to carry out advanced studies. These have included adjoint modelling, Bayesian filtering, acoustic particle velocity measurement, the application of ambient noise for ocean tomography and geoacoustic inversion, and the acoustics of kelp forests and seagrass meadows. He has been a consultant to industry and government on acoustic systems for environmental assessment and a group leader in multidisciplinary projects of the European Commission Framework Programme (Integrated Project, Network of Excellence, International Research Staff Exchange Scheme, Cooperation).
Besides his own field research projects, he has been involved in a variety of campaigns in the Mediterranean, Australia, West Africa and Latin America dealing with marine ecology, fisheries, sediment transport and cultural heritage. Over the course of his career, he has served as Chief Scientist on over thirty scientific cruises. He is also the author of over 250 publications and co-editor of two books. Professor Hermand has served on scientific and technical committees for the ASA, the IEEE OES, the European Optical Society, the European Conferences on Underwater Acoustics, the International Conferences on Theoretical and Computational Acoustics, the Pacific Rim Underwater Acoustics Conference and the Underwater Acoustics Conferences and Exhibitions, where he has co-organized structured sessions.
As a friend, “JP” was always joyful and supportive. The glimmer in his eyes and his mischievous smile could easily illuminate a room and bring great joy to those around him. If he could have traveled at the speed-of-light he would have, but instead he took his special bicycle everywhere. Jean-Pierre will be sorely missed by many. He departs this world, but will always remain in our hearts!
Obituary of Dr. Edmund J. Sullivan
James V Candy
Dr. Edmund J. Sullivan.
EDMUND J. SULLIVAN, 83, passed away on September 15 2018 after a battle with cancer. He was a father, mentor, colleague and a dear friend. Ed was a Co-Chair of the Ocean Signal Processing and Statistical Learning Technical Committee of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society as well as an associate editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering for nine years. He will be greatly missed, his curiosity, his insight into complex technical problems, his mastery of foreign languages, his conversations and sound arguments, his love of daily puzzle-solving, but most importantly—his wonderful sense of humor and jokes!
Dr. Edmund Sullivan received all of his degrees from the University of Rhode Island with a Bachelor’s in Science in Electrical Engineering in 1965, a master’s degree in Electrical Engineering in 1967 and a Ph.D. in Physics in 1970. He was truly an “oceanic signal processor” possessing a deep knowledge and understanding of both ocean dynamics and processing techniques. Most known for his work on passive synthetic aperture towed array processing culminating in his recent textbook entitled Model-Based: Processing for Underwater Acoustic Arrays (Springer Briefs in Physics, ASA Press, 2015).
Dr. Sullivan’s contributions to acoustics might be considered somewhat of an anomaly at first glance. Ed had a wealth of technical publications and awards in acoustics. He was well-known in the underwater acoustics community as an array designer, acoustics modeler, torpedo analyst/designer, tracking algorithm specialist, educator, advisor, mentor and father of the modern passive synthetic aperture processor. Perhaps all of these contributions can be surmised in one catchall identifier—Ed was a “model-based signal processor” combining his knowledge of the underlying acoustic phenomenology with oceanic measurements to create a model-based processor.
Ed’s career was international, most notably evolving first as a staff scientist for the Physics and Technology Division at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC), then next as leader of the Signal Processing Group at the SACLANT Undersea Research Centre in La Spezia Italy until 1988 returning again to NUWC.
Technically, Dr. Sullivan published a wealth of papers and was extremely well-known in acoustic signal processing. In recognition of his achievements and contributions to model-based acoustic array signal processing, he was elevated to the grade of Fellow of both the Acoustical Society of America and the IEEE (Oceanic Engineering Society), a rare distinction. He received NUWC “Excellence in Science” Award, both in 1978 and 1991. Further honors followed with the IEEE Distinguished Technical Achievement award in 1994 and the inaugural Acoustical Society of America’s Silver Medal for Signal Processing in Acoustics in 2010.
Ed Sullivan was a wonderful scientist, a man of high integrity and a great friend and colleague. He will be greatly missed!
Obituary of Dr. John E. Ehrenberg
Tracey Steig
Dr. John E. Ehrenberg
The following obituary for John Ehrenberg was prepared by his family. The photo below was added for the Beacon. John Ehrenberg was a Life Senior Member of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society. He served as an Associate Editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering from July 1982 to January 2005. He was Editor of a special issue of the Journal devoted to “Ocean Acoustic Remote Sensing” V.11(1), 1986.
John Ehrenberg, age 74, passed away at home on September 27, 2018 after a short but robust struggle with pancreatic cancer. John was born in Spokane, worked most of his adult life in Seattle and returned to live part-time in eastern Washington in 2001. He rebuilt a cabin in his much loved Methow Valley, enjoyed skiing and hiking and had a keen and grateful appreciation for the Methow Valley Chamber Music Festival. He enjoyed sailing, was an avid traveler for business and pleasure and a brilliant finish carpenter. John loved his friends and nieces and nephews who were a wonderful support for him during his illness. He was a devoted and loving husband to his wife of 51 years Kathleen, father to his daughter Shannon and his son David, and grandfather to Riley.
Beginning at the University of Washington in the 1970’s and continuing over the past 45 years, Dr Ehrenberg did seminal work in the advancement of fisheries acoustic research. In 2016 he was awarded the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society (OES) Distinguished Technical Achievement Award for the invention of the dual beam and split-beam scientific echo sounders and for contributions to the use of miniature acoustic tags in fisheries and predation research.
Dr. Ehrenberg received his PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington in 1973, his MS in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1968 and his BS in EE from Seattle University. From 1973 to 1983 John was Research Faculty and Principal Engineer at the University of Washington Applied Physics Research Lab and went on to become a Research Professor in Electrical Engineering at the UW and then an Affiliate Faculty member at the University. Dr. Ehrenberg’s students and younger colleagues continue to do stellar research in echo statistics.
From 1989 to 2007 Ehrenberg was Director and then acting Vice President of Information Electronics and Avionics Technology for Boeing Phantom Works. He directed research and development on advanced modulation and coding techniques for digital communications systems, adaptive processing algorithms and custom architectures for high speed signal processing. John was impressed by and grateful for the brilliance of the scientists and support staff he worked with while at Boeing.
In 1989 Dr. Ehrenberg was brought on by the founding partners of the hydroacoustic consulting firm Hydroacoustic Technology Inc. to develop an engineering and manufacturing division. From 2007 until 2016 John Ehrenberg was President of HTI as they pioneered new techniques in fish assessment throughout the Pacific Northwest and the world. Using acoustic principles, John pioneered chirp signal processing and matched filter technology in the design of off-the-shelf echosounders available from HTI since 1992. From 2016 until the present Dr. Ehrenberg has been Chief Scientist of HTI-Vemco USA. The company has given many young engineers and fishery biologists the opportunity to work for the protection of our resources and the environment.
John, the grandson of Swedish immigrants who came here on their own as teenagers, worked all his adult life to insure everyone had the same opportunities his family did. (In the 1960’s he joined the already decades long struggle for open housing in Seattle. In the 1970’s John joined the campaign against Initiative 13; marched in the first AIDS Walk in 1986; and campaigned for Gay Rights for the rest of his life. Most recently he joined the struggle against the inhumane treatment of immigrant children and worked to protect the civil rights of his Muslim students and their families.) John was a happy man. He led a good life.
At John’s request, there will not be a funeral. In early June of 2019 a celebration of John’s life will be held in the Methow Valley. If you would like to make a gift in John’s memory, you may contribute to the Ehrenberg Endowed Scholarship in Electrical Engineering, University of Washington Foundation, College of Engineering, 371 Loew hall, Box 352180, Seattle, WA 98195.
“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T.S.Elliot.
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.