Constitution of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society
(Effective 15 August 2022)
ARTICLE I. NAME AND OBJECTIVES
Section I-1: Name
This organization shall be known as the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society, also known as the IEEE OES, and herein as the Society.
Section I-2: Objectives
The Society’s objectives shall be scientific, literary, and educational in character. The Society shall strive for the advancement of the theory and practice of electrotechnology, allied branches of engineering, and related arts and sciences, applied to all bodies of water; and the maintenance of high professional and ethical standards among its members and affiliates.
Section I-3: Purpose
The Society shall promote close cooperation and exchange of technical information among its members through publications and meetings. The Society shall foster the technical and professional growth of its members.
Section I-4: Consonance with IEEE
All provisions of the Society’s Constitution, Bylaws, and Policies and Procedures documents shall be always in consonance with the Constitution, Bylaws, and Policies and Procedures documents of the IEEE.
ARTICLE II – FIELD OF INTEREST
Section II-1: Field of Interest
The Field of Interest of the Society includes all aspects of science, engineering, and technology that address research, development, and operations pertaining to all bodies of water. This includes the creation of new capabilities and technologies from concept design through prototypes, testing, and operational systems to sense, explore, understand, develop, use, and responsibly manage natural resources.
Section II-2: Cooperation with Other Groups
The Society shall aid in promoting close cooperation and exchange of information with other IEEE Groups and Societies in the form of joint publications, sponsorship of meetings and other activities that support the Society’s objectives. Appropriate cooperative efforts may also be undertaken with professional or technical organizations that are not affiliated with the IEEE.
Section II-3: Changing Field of Interest Statement
The Society may revise its Field of Interest Statement using the process defined in the IEEE Technical Activities Board Operations Manual. Once approved by the IEEE Technical Activities Board, the change must be ratified as an amendment to this Constitution.
ARTICLE III – MEMBERSHIP
Section III-1: Eligibility
IEEE members in any grade having a professional interest in any phase of the Field of Interest of the Society may become members of the Society upon application and payment of dues.
Section III-2: Affiliates
Any person having a professional interest in any phase of the Field of Interest of the Society and who is not a member of the IEEE may join the Society as an Affiliate upon application and payment of dues.
ARTICLE IV – FINANCES
Section IV-1: Annual Dues
The Society shall collect annual dues from its members in accordance with the Bylaws of the IEEE.
Section IV-2: Meeting Registration Fees
The Society may charge registration fees at its conferences, symposia, workshops, and other meetings. Registration fees for IEEE members and Society Affiliates may be less than for nonmembers.
Section IV-3: Additional Sources of Revenue
The Society may derive income from its publications and raise revenues by other means as permitted by the Bylaws of the IEEE and the Society.
Section IV-4: Limitation on Financial Authority
Neither the Society nor any Officer or representative thereof shall have any authority to contract debts for, pledge the credit of, or in any way bind the IEEE or the Society, except within prior IEEE-approved Society budgets or plans, and in accordance with the Bylaws of the Society.
ARTICLE V – ADMINISTRATION
Section V-1: Administrative Committee
V-1.1 Powers and Duties of the Administrative Committee
The Society shall be managed by an Administrative Committee. The Administrative Committee shall set policies for the Society, direct the affairs and activities of the Society, evaluate proposals presented to the Society, elect the Officers of the Society, and establish Standing and ad hoc Committees of the Society. The Administrative Committee shall approve or reject appointments made by the President of the Society, such appointments having been made in accordance with the Bylaws of the Society. The Administrative Committee shall authorize meetings, publications, and activities consistent with the Objectives, Purpose, and Field of Interest of the Society. The Administrative Committee shall set the annual budget of the Society and shall approve or reject departures from the budget proposed in accordance with the Bylaws of the Society.
V-1.2 Administrative Committee Membership
The Administrative Committee shall comprise Elected Members, Officers of the Society, and Members ex officio. Nomination, Election, and Appointment Procedures shall be as specified in the Bylaws of the Society.
V-1.2.1 Elected Members of the Administrative Committee.
Elected Members must be Members of the Society of IEEE Member grade or higher at the time of election and throughout their term of office. The number of Elected Members shall be as specified in the Bylaws. Elected Members shall serve terms of three years. No more than two terms may be served consecutively. Eligibility is restored after a lapse of one year. One-third of the Elected Members shall be elected each year.
V-1.2.2 Officers of the Society.
Officers of the Society must be Members of the Society at the time of election and throughout their term of office. IEEE membership grade requirements shall be as specified in the Bylaws of the Society.
V-1.2.2.1 Officers Named.
The Officers of the Society shall be the President, the Past President, the Executive Vice President, the Vice President for Technical Activities, the Vice President for Professional Activities, the Vice President for Workshops and Symposia, the Vice President for OCEANS, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Oceanic Engineering, the Treasurer, and the Secretary.
V-1.2.2.2 Qualifications, Terms of Office, Powers and Duties of Officers.
The Qualifications, Terms of Office, and Powers and Duties of the Officers shall be as specified in the Bylaws.
V-1.2.2.3 Election of Officers.
Officers shall be elected as provided in the Bylaws at a regular meeting of the Administrative Committee each calendar year, and shall take office on the following January 1. No more than two consecutive full terms in each elected office are permitted. Eligibility is restored after being out of office for one year.
V-1.2.3 Members ex officio of the Administrative Committee
Society and IEEE membership requirements for Members ex officio of the Administrative Committee shall be as specified in the Bylaws of the Society.
V-1.2.4 Petition Signature Requirements for Positions on the Governing Body Elected by the Membership
For each elective office of the Society, individual voting members eligible to vote in such election may nominate candidates either by a written petition or by majority vote at a nomination meeting of the organizational unit, provided such nominations are made at least 28 days before the date of election. The number of signatures required on a petition shall be determined in accordance with IEEE Bylaws as follows.
For all positions where the electorate is less than 30,000 voting members, signatures shall be required from 2% of the eligible voters. For all positions where the electorate is more than 30,000 voting members, 600 signatures of eligible voters plus 1% of the difference between the number of eligible voters and 30,000 shall be required. Members shall be notified of all duly made nominations prior to the election. Prior to submission of a nomination petition, the petitioner shall have determined that the nominee named in the petition is willing to serve, if elected; evidence of such willingness to serve shall be submitted with the petition. Signatures can be submitted electronically through the official IEEE Society annual election website, or by signing and mailing a paper petition. The name of each member signing the paper petition shall be clearly printed or typed. For identification purposes of signatures on paper petitions, membership numbers or addresses as listed in the official IEEE membership records shall be included. Only signatures submitted electronically through the IEEE Society annual elections website or original signatures on paper petitions shall be accepted. Facsimiles, or other copies of the original signature, shall not be accepted. The number of signatures required on a petition shall depend on the number of eligible Society voters, as listed in the official IEEE membership records at the end of the year preceding the election.
V-1.3 Powers and Duties of Administrative Committee Members
Members of the Administrative Committee shall actively participate in the proceedings of the Committee and the activities of the Society.
V-1.4 Voting Members of the Administrative Committee
The Elected Members of the Administrative Committee and the Officers of the Society are the Voting Members of the Administrative Committee. The Voting Members may vote on all matters before the Administrative Committee. Officers of the Society who are also Elected Members shall be limited to one vote. Members ex officio may not vote on matters before the Administrative Committee except as specified in the Bylaws of the Society.
V-1.5 Quorum
A majority of the Voting Members of the Administrative Committee shall constitute a quorum.
V-1.6 Action of the Administrative Committee
The Action of the Administrative Committee and committees thereof shall consist of:
V-1.6.1 The vote of a majority of the Voting Members of the Administrative Committee present at the time of vote, provided a quorum is present, shall be the act of the Administrative Committee.
V-1.6.2 The Administrative Committee may meet and act upon the vote of its members by any means of telecommunication. The normal voting requirements shall apply when action is taken by means of telecommunications equipment allowing all persons participating in the meeting to hear each other at the same time.
V-1.6.3 The Administrative Committee may take action without a meeting, if applicable, such as a vote by electronic transmission. An affirmative vote of a majority of all the Voting Members of the Administrative Committee shall be required to approve the action. The results of the vote shall be confirmed promptly in writing or by electronic transmission. The writings and/or electronic transmissions shall be filed with the minutes of the proceedings of the Administrative Committee. “Electronic transmission” means any form of electronic communication, such as e-mail, not directly involving the physical transmission of paper, that creates a record that may be retained, retrieved and reviewed by a recipient thereof, and that may be directly reproduced in paper form by such a recipient.
V-1.6.4 Individual Voting Members of the Administrative Committee who hold more than one position on the Administrative Committee, or any committees thereof, shall be limited to one vote on each matter being considered by the Administrative Committee.
V-1.6.5 Proxy voting is not allowed.
V-1.7 Vote of the Presiding Officer
The presiding Officer of the Administrative Committee shall have no vote on the Administrative Committee, except if the vote is by secret ballot, or unless the Chair’s vote can change the outcome of the vote.
Section V-2: Executive Committee
V-2.1 Powers and Duties of the Executive Committee
The Executive Committee shall manage the affairs of the Society between meetings of the Administrative Committee. Its actions shall be published to the Administrative Committee in a timely manner and become final only after approval by the Administrative Committee.
V-2.2 Executive Committee Membership
The Executive Committee shall comprise the Officers of the Society.
Section V-3: Nominations and Appointments
V-3.1 Chair of the Nominations and Appointments Committee
The Chair of the Nominations and Appointments Committee shall be the Past President of the Society. In the event of incapacity or conflict of interest of the Past President, the available most recent Past Chair of the Nominations and Appointments Committee shall be the Chair of the Nominations and Appointments committee. With extenuating circumstances, a different individual may be appointed to this position.
V-3.1.1 The Chair of the Nominations and Appointments Committee shall not be eligible to run for election to the Administrative Committee during the Chair’s term of service.
V-3.2 Nominations and Appointments Committee Membership
At least two-thirds of the voting members of the Nominations and Appointments Committee shall be elected or appointed by the Administrative Committee.
V-3.2.1 A member of the Nominations and Appointments Committee may be nominated and run for a position for which such member’s respective Nominations and Appointments Committee is responsible for making nominations only on the following conditions:
- the nomination is not made by a member of the same Nominations and Appointments Committee and
- the member resigns from the Nominations and Appointments Committee prior to its first meeting of the year in which the nomination shall be made.
Section V-4: Provision for Removal of Administrative Committee Member
A Member of the Administrative Committee who materially violates the Constitution, Bylaws, Policies and Procedures, or Code of Ethics of the Society or the IEEE, or who engages in other conduct that is seriously prejudicial to the Society or the IEEE, may be removed from his or her position as provided in the Bylaws.
ARTICLE VI – CHAPTERS
Section VI-1: Chapters Authorized and Defined
A Chapter is a subgroup of Society Members from a Section or Sections of the IEEE focusing on some aspect of the Field of Interest of the Society. A Chapter may be formed in accordance with the Bylaws of the Society and of the IEEE. A Joint Chapter may be formed with other Societies of the IEEE.
ARTICLE VII – MEETINGS
Section VII-1: Technical Meetings
The Society may organize and sponsor or co-sponsor meetings, conferences, symposia, workshops, or conventions either alone or in cooperation with other Societies, Technical Councils, Regional Councils, Sections, or Committees of the IEEE, or with other professional or technical organizations, subject to the IEEE Conference Guidelines. The Society shall organize and sponsor or co-sponsor at least one technical conference each year.
Section VII-2: Administrative Meetings
The Administrative Committee shall hold at least two meetings each calendar year. One of these meetings may be replaced by a meeting of the Executive Committee. Such meetings require at least 30 days notice to all Administrative Committee members. A quorum for such meetings shall be defined in the Bylaws of the Society.
ARTICLE VIII – PUBLICATIONS
Section VIII-1: Publications
The Society shall publish at least one peer-reviewed journal. Other publications may include paper and electronic newsletters or magazines, proceedings, and web sites. Publications of the Society shall conform to IEEE and Society publication policies. The Society shall be responsible for the financial aspects of its publication program.
ARTICLE IX – BYLAWS
Section IX-1: Bylaws Authorized
Bylaws shall be established for the purpose of governing the operations and administration of the Society.
Section IX-2: Amendment Procedure
Notice of proposed changes to the Bylaws shall be sent to all Administrative Committee Members at least 30 days before a meeting at which the proposed changes are to be considered. Such changes to the Bylaws require an affirmative vote by at least two-thirds of the Voting Members of the Administrative Committee present in a meeting, provided that a majority of the Voting Members of the Administrative Committee cast affirmative votes.After AdCom approval, the changes shall be forwarded to the IEEE Vice President of Technical Activities for approval.
ARTICLE X – AMENDMENTS
Section X-1: Amendment Procedure
Amendments to this Constitution may be initiated by the Administrative Committee or by petition submitted to the Administrative Committee by five percent or more of the Members of the Society. In either case, the proposed amendment shall be submitted to the IEEE Vice President of Technical Activities for approval. After such approval, the proposed amendment shall be publicized in at least one of the Society’s publications or by direct communication to the membership. The proposed amendment shall be distributed by a ballot to all members of the Society at least 60 days before the date specified for the return of the ballots. The ballots shall carry a statement of the time limit for their return to the IEEE. Approval of the amendment by at least two-thirds of the ballots returned shall be necessary for its enactment.
Section X-2: Effective Date
All amendments to the Constitution shall become effective 30 days after all necessary approvals and notifications, unless a later date shall have been specified at the time the vote was taken.
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.