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Juliette W. Ioup is Professor of Physics and Seraphia Leyda University Teaching Fellow at the University of New Orleans. She has bachelors and master’s degrees in physics from the University of Florida and a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Connecticut. She has been a seismic data processor at Texaco and a professor of physics at Xavier University of New Orleans. She is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, a Senior Member of Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and a member of the American Physical Society (APS), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG). Her research interests include acoustic, geophysical, and aerospace signal analysis and processing; deconvolution, mathematical digital filtering, and spectral estimation; Fourier and wavelet transforms; higher order correlations and spectra; underwater acoustics and bioacoustics; model- ing and simulation; and computational physics.
Natalia Sidorovskaia is an associate professor and chairper- son in the Physics department of the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. Her primary research interests include signal processing techniques for bio- and geo- acoustics, sound propagation modeling in oceanic wave- guides, and high performance computing. She has co- authored over 30 research articles, two book chapters, and one book on acoustics. Dr. Sidorovskaia is an active mem- ber of the Acoustical Society of America and its technical committee on signal processing.
George E. Ioup received a SB (1962) in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. (1968) in physics from the University of Florida. After one-year appointments as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Connecticut and as an assistant professor of physics at the U. S. Coast
Guard Academy, he joined the Department of Physics, University of New Orleans (UNO) in 1969. He is now University Research Professor of Physics and Geophysics. He currently serves as Director of UNO at Stennis Space Center and has been president of the Southeastern Geophysical Society (SGS). He has received the Amoco Outstanding Educator Award. His research interests include acoustic, geophysical, and aerospace signal analysis and processing; deconvolution, math- ematical digital filtering, and spectral estimation; Fourier and wavelet transforms; higher order correlations and spectra; underwater acoustics and bioacoustics; modeling and simula- tion; and computational physics. He is a Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America, Honorary Life Member of the Southeastern Geophysical Society, and a member of the American Physical Society (APS), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Optical Society of America (OSA), Society of Exploration Geophysicists (SEG), and the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Alexander Ekimov joined the staff of the National Center for Physical Acoustics at the University of Mississippi in January 2005. He holds B.S. and M.S. degrees (1978) in Radiophysics from Gorky State
University in Russia and a Ph.D. (1993) in acoustics from the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a widely known expert in applied and experimental physics related to signal processing. He has developed new approaches to signal pro- cessing for a large number of applications including detec- tion and classification signals due to human and animal footsteps using data fusion of many orthogonal sensors including ultrasonic monostatic Doppler sonar in air. Ekimov has more than 40 publications in scientific journals and international proceedings in this area. His current con- cern is to investigate human and light vehicles detection and classifications in signals. He is a member of the Acoustical Society of America.
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