Current Research Topics

Underwater Acoustics & Signal Processing

• Underwater acoustic communication & networking
• Automated classification & clustering of acoustic signals
• Distributed & robust array signal processing
• Differentiable acoustic propagation modeling
• Monte Carlo methods & Bayesian inference in matched field processing (MFP)
• Ambient noise imaging (ANI) & passive acoustics
• Snapping shrimp noise

Passive Acoustic Monitoring

• Estimation of arctic glacial melt rate using passive acoustics
• Coral reef health monitoring with passive acoustics
• Bird species monitoring with passive acoustics

Cooperative Underwater Robotics

• Informative path-planning for teams of robots
• Adaptive sampling with teams of robots
• Human-robot cooperation under severe communication constraints
• Cooperative terrain-aided underwater navigation
• Path-planning for cooperative navigation
• Emergent behaviors in small teams of robots