Program Book - Oceans'10 IEEE Sydney

Acoustic modem implementation will also be discussed, as it
pertains to the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution‘s ―micromodem.‖
Throughout the lecture, the emphasis will be on the
fundamental differences between the acoustic and radio
systems, and various signal processing concepts will be
discussed through a series of experimental data examples,
which illustrate transmission over shallow and deep water
acoustic channels at highest bit-rates demonstrated to date.
Biography: Dr Milica Stojanovic
Milica Stojanovic graduated from the University of Belgrade,
Serbia, in 1988, and received the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in
electrical engineering from Northeastern University, Boston,
MA, in 1991 and 1993. After a number of years with the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she was a
Principal Scientist, she joined the faculty of Electrical and
Computer Engineering Department at Northeastern University
in 2008. She is also a Guest Investigator at the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institution, and a Visiting Scientist at MIT. Her
research interests include digital communications theory,
statistical signal processing and wireless networks, and their
applications to mobile radio and underwater acoustic
communication systems. Milica is an Associate Editor for the
IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering and the IEEE Transactions
on Signal processing.
Biography: Lee Freitag
Lee Freitag holds BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering
from the University of Alaska, Fairbanks which he received in
1986 and 1987 respectively. He is currently a Senior Engineer
at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution where he has
worked on projects related to underwater acoustics for twenty
years. His research programs focus on underwater acoustic
communication and navigation with a strong focus on
unmanned underwater vehicles, sensors and submarine
systems.
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