Curriculum Vitae - MIT Department of Mechanical Engineering

Pierre F.J. LermusiauxAssociate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Ocean Science and EngineeringDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyRoom 5-207; 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139-43071Tel: (617) 324.5172, Fax: (617) 324.3541Email: pierrel at mit.edu, Web: http://mseas.mit.edu, http://web.mit.edu/pierrel/www/EducationPh.D. in Engineering Sciences, May 1997S.M. in Applied Physics, May 1993M./B. in Mech. Engineering, June 1992Harvard University – DEAS, Cambridge, MAHarvard University – DEAS, Cambridge, MALiege University, BelgiumBiography/Research InterestsDr. Lermusiaux is an Associate Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Ocean Science and Engineeringat MIT. He received a Fulbright Foundation Fellowship, the Wallace Prize at Harvard (1993), and theOgilvie Young Investigator Lecture in Ocean Eng. at MIT (1998). He was awarded the MIT DohertyChair in Ocean Utilization (2009-2011) and the 2010 Ruth and Joel Spira Award for DistinguishedTeaching by the School of Eng. at MIT. He has made outstanding contributions in data assimilation, aswell as in ocean modeling and uncertainty predictions. His research thrusts include understanding andmodeling complex physical and interdisciplinary oceanic dynamics and processes. With his group, hecreates, develops and utilizes new mathematical models and computational methods for ocean predictionsand dynamical diagnostics, for optimization and control of autonomous ocean systems, for uncertaintyquantification and prediction, and for data assimilation and data-model comparisons. He has participatedin many national and international sea exercises. He has served on numerous committees and organizedmajor meetings. He is associate editor in three journals. He has more than eighty refereed publications.Selected Professional ExperienceHarvard U., DEAS Post-Doctoral Fellow 1997 1999Harvard U., DEAS Research Associate 2000 2006MIT, Mech. Eng. Assoc. Prof., without tenure 01/01/2007 06/30/2012MIT, Mech. Eng. Assoc. Prof., with tenure 07/01/2012 PresentSelected Subset of Institutional and Professional Service (last four years)Editorial Board, International Journal of Ocean & OceanographyApr 2005 - PresentAssociate Editor: Ocean Dynamics, Springer; Ocean Modeling, Elsevier Jan 2008 - PresentAdvisory Board, European COastal-shelf sea Operational system (ECOOP) Sep 2007 - Aug 2010Editor of four special issues: Ocean Dynamics (3); Dyn. Atm. & Oc. (1) May 2007 - PresentGroup Leader for ONR QPE and PLUS-INP programs Jan 2007 - Dec 2011Chair IMUM2010 Scientific Committee Sep 2009 - Aug 2010NSF Physical Oceanography Review Panel, NSF PIONEER Array MIT-Rep. Feb 2011 - Apr 2011Advisory Board, European Stochastic Assimilation (SANGOMA)Nov 2012 - PresentMIT Committees (e.g.): MIT/WHOI Joint Committee for Applied Ocean Science and Engineering;Presidential Committee for Distinguished Fellowships; MechE Strategic Planning, Graduate PolicyOrganizer of multiple sessions of the AGU “Ocean Sciences” and EGS Union MeetingsReviewer of manuscripts, articles and proposals for multiple editors, journals and agenciesCurrent Professional Organization MembershipAssociation of the Engineers of Liege; The Friends of the University of LiegeAmerican Geophysical UnionThe Oceanography SocietyAmerican Association for the Advancement of ScienceSIAM, IEEE and ASME1992-Present1997-Present1999-Present2007-Present2009-PresentPage 1 of 2

AwardsFellow, Robert L. Wallace Prize Fellowship from Harvard Univ. 1993Fellow and Honorary Fellow, Fulbright Foundation 1992–97Honorary Fellow Award, Belgian American Educational Foundation 1992–97Annual T. Francis Ogilvie Young Investigator Lecture, MIT-OE. 1998CIMAS Invited Scientist, U. of Miami 2002MIT Doherty Chair in Ocean Utilization (2009-2011) 2008Ruth and Joel Spira Award for Distinguished Teaching, SoE, MIT. 20102011-2013 Refereed Publications (Journals and Proceedings)1. Evangelinos, C., P.F.J. Lermusiaux, J.Xu, P.J. Haley, and C.N. Hill, 2011. Many Task Computing for Real-TimeUncertainty Prediction and Data Assimilation in the Ocean. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, SpecialIssue on Many-Task Computing, I. Foster, I. Raicu and Y. Zhao (Guest Eds.), 22, doi: 10.1109/TPDS.2011.64.2. Lermusiaux, P.F.J., P.J. Haley, Jr., W.G. Leslie, A. Agarwal, O. Logutov and L.J. Burton, 2011. Multiscale Physical andBiological Dynamics in the Philippines Archipelago: Predictions and Processes. Oceanography. PhilEx Issue, 24(1), 70-89,doi:10.5670/oceanog.2011.05.3. Agarwal, A. and P.F.J. Lermusiaux, 2011. Statistical Field Estimation for Complex Coastal Regions and Archipelagos.Ocean Modeling. doi: 10.1016/j.ocemod.2011.08.001, 40(2), 164-189.4. Duda, T.F., Y.-T. Lin, W.G. Zhang, B.D. Cornuelle, P.F.J. Lermusiaux, 2011. Computational Studies of 3D Ocean soundfields in areas of complex seafloor topography and active ocean dynamics. Proceedings of the 10th InternationalConference on Theoretical and Computational Acoustics, NTU, Taiwan, 12pp.5. Lermusiaux, P.F.J, A.J. Miller and N. Pinardi, 2011. Special issue of Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans in honor ofProf. A.R. Robinson, Editorial, Dynamics of Atmospheres and Oceans, doi:10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2011.08.001, 52, 1-3.6. Ramp, S.R., P.F.J. Lermusiaux, I. Shulman, Y. Chao, R.E. Wolf, and F.L. Bahr, 2011. Oceanographic and AtmosphericConditions on the Continental Shelf North of the Monterey Bay during August 2006. Dynamics of Atmospheres andOceans, doi:10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2011.04.005, 52, 192-223.7. Gangopadhyay, A., P.F.J. Lermusiaux, L. Rosenfeld, A.R. Robinson, L. Calado, H.S. Kim, W.G. Leslie and P.J. Haley, Jr.,2011. The California Current System: A Multiscale Overview and the Development of a Feature-Oriented RegionalModeling System (FORMS). Dynamics of Atmos. and Oceans, doi:10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2011.04.003, 52, 131-169.8. Gawarkiewicz, G., S. Jan, P.F.J. Lermusiaux, J.L. McClean, L. Centurioni, K. Taylor, B. Cornuelle, T.F. Duda, J. Wang,Y.J. Yang, T. Sanford, R.-C. Lien, C. Lee, M.-A. Lee, W. Leslie, P.J. Haley Jr., P.P. Niiler, G. Gopalakrishnan, P. Velez-Belchi, D.-K. Lee, and Y.Y. Kim. 2011. Circulation and intrusions northeast of Taiwan: Chasing and predicting uncertaintyin the cold dome. Oceanography, 24(4):110–121, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2011.99.9. Sapsis, T.P. and P.F.J. Lermusiaux, 2012. Dynamical criteria for the evolution of the stochastic dimensionality in flowswith uncertainty. Physica D, 241(1), 60-76, doi:10.1016/j.physd.2011.10.001.10. Rixen, M., P.F.J. Lermusiaux P.F.J. and J. Osler, (Guest Eds.), 2012. Quantifying, Predicting and Exploiting MaritimeEnvironmental Uncertainties, Ocean Dynamics, doi: 10.1007/s10236-012-0526-8, 62(3):495–499.11. Lolla, T.; Ueckermann, M.P.; Yigit, K.; Haley, P.J.; Lermusiaux, P.F.J., 2012, Path planning in time dependent flow fieldsusing level set methods, 2012 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), pp.166-173, 14-18 May2012, doi: 10.1109/ICRA.2012.6225364.12. Ueckermann, M.P., P.F.J. Lermusiaux and T.P. Sapsis, 2013. Numerical Schemes for Dynamically Orthogonal Equations ofStochastic Fluid and Ocean Flows. J. Comp. Phys., 233, 272-294, doi: 10.1016/j.jcp.2012.08.041.13. Sondergaard, T. and P.F.J. Lermusiaux, 2013a. Data Assimilation with Gaussian Mixture Models using the DynamicallyOrthogonal Field Eqns. Part I. Theory and Scheme. Mon. Wea. Rev., 141, 6, 1737-1760, doi:10.1175/MWR-D-11-00295.1.14. Sondergaard, T. and P.F.J. Lermusiaux, 2013b. Data Assimilation with Gaussian Mixture Models using the DynamicallyOrthogonal Field Equations. Part II: Applications. Mon. Wea. Rev., 141, 6, 1761-1785, doi:10.1175/MWR-D-11-00296.1.15. Colin, M.E.G.D., T.F. Duda, L.A. te Raa, T. van Zon, P.J. Haley, Jr., P.F.J. Lermusiaux, W.G. Leslie, C. Mirabito, F.P.A.Lam, A.E. Newhall, Y.-T. Lin, J.F. Lynch, 2013. Time-Evolving Acoustic Propagation Modeling in a Complex OceanEnvironment, Proceedings of OCEANS - Bergen, 2013 MTS/IEEE , vol., no., pp.1,9, 10-14 June 2013, doi:10.1109/OCEANS-Bergen.2013.6608051.16. Sapsis, T.P., M.P. Ueckermann and P.F.J. Lermusiaux, 2013. Global Analysis of Navier-Stokes and Boussinesq StochasticFlows using Dynamical Orthogonality, J. Fluid Mech., 734, 83-113. doi:10.1017/jfm.2013.458.17. Lermusiaux, P.F.J., J. Schröter, S. Danilov, M. Iskandaranu, N. Pinardi and J. Westerink, 2013. Multiscale Modeling ofCoastal, Shelf and Global Ocean Dynamics, Ocean Dynamics. 63:1341–1344. DOI: 10.1007/s10236-013-0655-8.18. Lermusiaux P.F.J, T. Lolla, P.J. Haley. Jr., K. Yigit, M.P. Ueckermann, T. Sondergaard and W.G. Leslie, 2014. Science ofAutonomy: Time-Optimal Path Planning and Adaptive Sampling for Swarms of Ocean Vehicles. Chapter 11, SpringerHandbook of Ocean Engineering: Autonomous Ocean Vehicles, Subsystems and Control, Tom Curtin (Ed.). In press.19. Lolla, T., P.F.J. Lermusiaux, M.P. Ueckermann and P.J. Haley, Jr., 2014. Time-Optimal Path Planning in Dynamic Flowsusing Level Set Equations: Theory and Schemes. J. Comp. Phys., sub-judice.20. Haley, P.J., Jr., A. Agarwal, P.F.J. Lermusiaux, 2014. Optimizing Velocities and Transports for Complex Coastal Regionsand Archipelagos. Ocean Modeling, sub-judice.Other Publications available from: http://mseas.mit.edu/publicationsPage 2 of 2