Education

• Ph.D. in Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2002
• B.Sc.(Hons.) in Physics, National University of Singapore, 1994

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Awards and Honours

• Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) 2007
• ONR Young Investigator Award (2007)
• R. Bruce Lindsay Award (2006)
• MIT T. Francis Ogilvie Young Investigator Lectureship in Ocean Engineering (2006)
• ONR Postdoctoral Award in Ocean Acoustics (2002-2004)
• Young Investigator Keynote Address, Acoustical Society of America (ASA) 75th Anniversary Celebration, New York (May, 2004)
• Best Student Paper Awards, Acoustical Society of America Meetings:
• DSO National Laboratories Graduate Scholarship, Singapore (1998)

Students

• Postdoctoral Associate : Dr. Elizabeth Kusel
• Graduate Students : Mark Andrews, Roger Gong, Duong Tran
• Undergraduate Students : Saumitro Dasgupta
• Former Students : Ninos Donabed (M.Sc., 2006) , Ameya Galinde (M.Sc., 2007) and Daniel Cocuzzo (B. Sc., 2008)

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Teaching

• ECE G398 - Wave Based Remote Sensing and Imaging/Acoustic Sensing and Imaging (Graduate)
  
• ECE G203 - Complex Variables and Differential Equations
  Graduate level calculus course on integration of complex functions and solution methods for partial differential equations.
• ECE U468 - Probability, Noise and Stochastic Processes (Undergraduate)
  
• GE U111 - High Tech Tools and Toys Lab
  Undergraduate level course offered through the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University (2004).
  The course is an introduction to computing in Matlab and C++ that also introduces students to the basics of remote sensing with experiments conducted using ultrasound.
  

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Previous Work Experience

• Postdoctoral Associate at MIT Department of Ocean Engineering (2002-2004)
  Conducted 2 major experiments and research under the ONR-sponsored Acoustic Clutter (Geoclutter) Program to examine the dominant source of long range sonar clutter in continental shelf environments.
• Research Engineer at DSO National Laboratories, Singapore (1994-1998)
  Examined the characteristics of sound propagation in shallow waters. Conducted experiments and modelling to study the impact of the environment on sound propagation. Also investigated various inverse methods to recover properties of the environment through match field processing and travel time inversions.

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Selected Journal Publications:

• Please visit my group's Publications section here. (Laboratory for Acoustics and Remote Sensing / L.A.R.S)

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