Acoustics
Arthur B. Baggeroer
Professor of Mechanical, Ocean and Electrical Engineering, Ford Professor of Engineering, Emeritus Home Phone: (617) 253-4336 Personal Email: abb@boreas.mit.edu Interest Areas: acoustics, sensing Website WebsiteOcean acoustics, sonar array processing, acoustic telemetry of the ocean and matched field array processing.
John Leonard
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering Home Phone: (617) 253-0607 Personal Email: jleonard@mit.edu Interest Areas: navigation, robotics, mapping Website WebsiteNavigation and mapping for autonomous mobile robots, robotic localization and mapping applications below, on and above water in marine and river environments.
Nicolas Makris
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering Home Phone: (617) 258-6104 Personal Email: makris@mit.edu Interest Areas: engineering, remote sensing Website WebsiteOcean exploration, remote sensing of marine life and geophysical phenomena, census of marine life, ocean acoustics, and hurricane classification.
Alan Oppenheim
Ford Professor of Engineering Home Phone: (617) 253 2561 Personal Email: avo@mit.edu Interest Areas: digital signal processing Website WebsiteResearch interests are in the general area of signal processing and its applications: coauthor of the widely used textbooks Discrete-Time Signal Processing and Signals and Systems.
Henrik Schmidt
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering Home Phone: (617) 253-5727 Personal Email: henrik@mit.edu Interest Areas: engineering, acoustics Website WebsiteArctic and shallow water acoustics; scattering and reverberation due to sea surface and ice roughness; determination of seismic-acoustic propagation and reverberation in ocean environments; and 3-D acoustics in very shallow water.