[CSEE Talk] talk: Underwater Acoustic Communication And Networking, 11:45am Thr 3/27

[Tim Finin]

	   Computer Science and Electrical Engineering
	    University of Maryland, Baltimore County

	      UNDERWATER ACOUSTIC COMMUNICATION AND
		  NETWORKING FOR OCEAN SAMPLING

			 Dr. Aijun Song
		  Assistant Research Professor
	     Physical Ocean Science and Engineering
	       School of Marine Science and Policy
	    College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment
	    University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716

	  11:45-12:45 Thursday, 27 March 2014, ITE325b, UMBC


On our planet Earth, the marine ecosystem is undergoing
significant changes due to human activities and natural
processes. These changes call for enhanced capabilities to sample
and communicate in the oceans. With this background, underwater
acoustic communication has attracted much attention across
multiple disciplines, as a means to access oceanographic data in
real-time and to support navigation of underwater vehicles. This
talk will focus on my recent efforts in 1) characterization and
modeling of the ocean environment as a communication medium, 2)
development of high data rate acoustic modems, both software and
hardware, and 3) application of underwater acoustic communication
networks in ocean sampling.

Dr. Aijun Song received his Ph.D. degree in the Department of
Electrical Engineering, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
in 2005. From 2005 to 2008, he was a postdoctoral research
associate at the College of Earth, Ocean, and Environment (CEOE),
University of Delaware. During this period, he was also an Office
of Naval Research (ONR) postdoctoral fellow, supported by the
special research award in the Ocean Acoustics program. Since
2008, he has been an Assistant Research Professor of the CEOE,
University of Delaware. His research interests include advanced
signal processing and communication techniques for mobile radio
frequencies as well as for underwater acoustic environments,
underwater acoustic signal propagation, and the general area of
ocean sampling.

Host: Curtis Menyuk, menyuk at umbc.edu

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