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Brian Anderson is visiting assistant professor of acoustics in the Physics and Astronomy Department of Brigham Young University (BYU). Prior to his appoint- ment at BYU, he was a post- doctoral research associate in the Geophysics Group (EES- 17) at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. He earned his Ph.D. in Acoustics
from The Pennsylvania State University in 2006. He earned M.S. and B.S. degrees in Physics from BYU where he began his study of the field of acoustics. Brian is actively involved in the Acoustical Society of America (ASA) running the Gallery of Acoustics competition, redesigning the website for the Technical Committee on Signal Processing in Acoustics, and chairing sessions and giving talks at ASA meetings. As a stu- dent he served on the ASA Student Council. Besides his pas- sion for all things acoustics he enjoys geocaching, wood working, and many sports. Most of all he enjoys spending time with his wife Angela and their three boys Travis, Lucas, and Marcus. His sons have learned at early ages to generate and listen to impulse responses (by clapping) whenever they are in reverberant spaces.
Brian G. Ferguson is Principal
Scientist and Engineer responsible
for Acoustic Systems Science in
the Maritime Operations Division
of Australia’s Defense Science and
Technology Organisation. He is
Australia’s national leader in
Battlespace Acoustics under the
Technical Cooperation Program
between the Governments of
Australia, Canada, New Zealand,
the United Kingdom, and the United States. He is also an invit- ed member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Sensors and Electronics Technology Panel TG-53. His work has been published widely in international scientific and engineer- ing journals. He was the General Chair of the OCEANS ’10 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Conference and Exhibition held at the Sydney Convention and Exhibition Centre, Darling Harbour, 24-27 May 2010. Dr Ferguson is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a Senior Member of the Australian Institution for Radio and Electronics Engineers, a Chartered Professional Engineer, a Member of the Australian Institution of Engineers and a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers. He was a recipient of the NATO Research and Technology Organization 2009 Scientific Achievement Award.
Kam W. Lo is a Senior Research Scientist in the Maritime Operations Division of Australia’s Defense Science and Technology Organization, where he is responsible for the develop- ment of advanced signal pro- cessing algorithms in support of acoustic systems science having defense applications. His work has been published widely in
international journals and conference proceedings. He was the Technical Program Chair of OCEANS ’10 IEEE, Sydney. Dr. Lo is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Michael Roan received B.S., M.S.,
and Ph.D. degrees from The
Pennsylvania State University. He
is currently the John Jones III
Professor of Mechanical
Engineering at Virginia Poly-tech-
nic Institute and State University.
Previous to his appointment at
Virginia Tech, he was the head of
the Signal Processing Department
at the Applied Research Laboratory at Penn State. His current areas of research include statistical signal processing for distrib- uted detection and estimation systems, blind source separation, adaptive signal processing methods, and information fusion for heterogeneous data streams.
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