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Edmund J. Sullivan received bachelors and masters degrees in Electrical Engineering in 1965 and 1967, respectively, and a Ph.D. in Nuclear Physics in 1970, all from the University of Rhode Island. Dr Sullivan served on the research and technology staff of the Naval Underwater Systems Center until February 1985 when he was appointed head of the Signal Processing Group at the SACLANT Undersea Research Centre in La Spezia, Italy. There he performed both theoretical and experimental research in matched-field processing, bispectral analysis of radiated noise, and passive synthetic aperture processing. He held this post until July 1988. He served as the Signal Processing editor for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America from 1983-85 and as associate editor for the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering for nine years ending in 1999. He was reappointed as Signal Processing editor for the Journal of the Acoustical Society of America in 2003. Previous to his retirement he was a staff scientist for the Physics and Technology Division at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC). Dr. Sullivan has published numerous journal articles, two encyclopedia articles, six book chapters, and several NATO and Government reports covering the subjects of Underwater Acoustics, Signal Processing, Nuclear Physics, and Electromagnetics. Among the awards he has received are the IEEE OCEANS 94/OSATES Distinguished Technical Achievement Award, the Acoustical Society of America Silver Medal in Signal Processing, and the NUWC Excellence in Science Award, both in 1978 and 1991. He is the holder of sever- al patents in the areas of underwater acoustics and array processing. His present inter- ests are in polyspectra, model-based signal processing, and synthetic-aperture array processing. He is a fellow of both the Acoustical Society of America and the IEEE, is list- ed in “Who's Who in American Science and Engineering” and “American Men and Women of Science.” He is also a member of Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Pi Sigma.
Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou received the Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, in 1988 and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Duke University, Durham, NC, in 1990 and 1993, respectively. Currently, she is a Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ. Her research interests include ocean acoustics, signal processing, Bayesian modeling, inverse problems, and spectroscopy. Dr. Michalopoulou is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America.
Caglar Yardim received B.S. and M.S. degrees in electrical engineering from the Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey in 1998 and 2001, respectively, and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 2007. Since 2010 he has been a Scientist at the Marine Physical Laboratory, UCSD. His research interests include signal processing, propagation, optimization, modeling, and inversion of electromagnetic and acoustic signals. Dr. Yardim was the recipient of the Best Student Paper Award at the 2007 IEEE Radar Conference and the Union Radio- Scientifique Internationale (URSI) Young Scientist Award in 2008. He is a member of the IEEE and the Acoustical Society of America.
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