Zheng Gong (Roger)                                              Address: 409 Dana Research Center
                                                                                                           360 Huntington Ave.
Ph.D Candidate                                                                                   Boston, MA 02115
Research Assistant                                                                             
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering                           Office: (617) 373-4874
Northeastern University                                                                      Mobile: (617) 938-9204                                  
                                                                                                           Email: zgong@ece.neu.edu

Education:
Ph.D candidate in Electrical Engineering, Northeastern University, Boston, MA (2006-present)
M.Sc. in Electronic and Computer Engineering, The University of Birmingham, UK (2004)
B. Eng. in Electronic Information Engineering, University of Shanghai for Sci. & Tech., China (2003)

Work Experience:
Baseband R&D Engineer, Sony Ericsson Mobile Communication (China) Co. Ltd., Beijing, China (2005-2006)
Graduate Intern, VT TSS Ltd., Watford, UK (2004-2005)

Award:
ONR Graduate Traineeship Award in Ocean Acoustics (2008)
Best Graduate Poster Award for the 19th CDSP Annual Research Workshop (2008)
Best Project Award for M.Sc. thesis (2004)
Siemens Distinguished Scholarship (2000 2001 2002)

Publications:
Z. Gong, M. Andrews, D. C. Cocuzzo, S. Dasgupta, S. Jagannathan, D. Symonds, I. Bertsatos, T. Chen, H. Pena, R. Patel, O. R. Godoe, R. W. Nero, J. M. Jech, N. C. Makris, and P. Ratilal, “Atlantic herring low-frequency target strength and abundance estimation: OAWRS 2006 experiment in the Gulf of Maine”, to be submitted to Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. (12/2008).

Z. Gong, D. C. Cocuzzo, M. Andrews, I. Bertsatos, T. Chen, H. Pena, T. C. Weber, N. C. Makris, and P. Ratilal, “Depth-dependent resonant target strength of a dense Atlantic herring school from wide-area OAWRS and localized 3D morphology sensing”, to be submitted to J. Acoust. Soc. Am. (12/2009).

P. Ratilal, N. C. Makris, Z. Gong, S. Jagannathan, M. Andrews, I. D. Couzin, O. R. Godoe, R. W. Nero, J. M. Jech, “Formation Processes of Vast Oceanic Fish Shoals”, submitted to Nature (11/2008).

S. Jagannathan, D. Symonds, I. Bertsatos, T. Chen, M. Andrews, Z. Gong, N. Donabed, H. Nia, A. Tan, L. Ngor, R. W. Nero, J. M. Jech, O. R. Godoe, S. Lee, P. Ratilal, and N. C. Makris, “Ocean Acoustic Waveguide Remote Sensing (OAWRS) of Marine Ecosystems”, submitted to Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. (04/2008, invited paper).

M. Andrews, Z. Gong, D. C. Cocuzzo, and P. Ratilal, “Population density imaging of random scatterers with the matched filter variance”, submitted to IEEE Geosci. Remote Sens. Lett. (05/2008).

Conference Presentations:
Z. Gong, M. Andrews, D. C. Cocuzzo, S. Dasgupta, S. Jagannathan, D. Symonds, I. Bertsatos, T. Chen, H. Pena, R. Patel, O. R. Godoe, R. W. Nero, J. M. Jech, N. C. Makris, and P. Ratilal, "Atlantic herring low-frequency target strength and abundance estimation: OAWRS 2006 experiment in the Gulf of Maine", J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 124, 2586 (presentation at the 156th ASA meeting at Miami, FL, 2008)

P. Ratilal, Z. Gong, D. C. Cocuzzo, M. Andrews, S. Jagannathan, I. Bertsatos, T. Chen, H. Pena, R. Patel, O. R. Godoe, T. C. Weber, J. M. Jech, and N. C. Makris, "Spawning behavior and spatial distribution of Atlantic herring on Georges Bank revealed by Ocean Acoustic Waveguide Remote Sensing", J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 123, 3103 (invited presentation at the 155th ASA meeting at Paris, France, 2008)

D. C. Cocuzzo, Z. Gong, M. Andrews, I. Bertsatos, T. Chen, H. Pena, T. C. Weber, N. C. Makris, and P. Ratilal, "Depth-dependent resonant target strength analysis of a dense Atlantic Herring school from wide-area OAWRS and localized 3D morphology sensing
", J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 123, 3940 (invited presentation at the 155th ASA meeting at Paris, France, 2008)


M. Andrews, Z. Gong, D. C. Cocuzzo, and P. Ratilal, "High-resolution population denstiy imaging of random scatterers through cross-spectral coherence in matched-filter variance", J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 123, 3781 (invited presentation at the 155th ASA meeting at Paris, France, 2008)

Z. Gong, D. C. Cocuzzo, M. Andrews, S. Jagannathan, H. Pena, R. Patel, J. Michael Jech, N. C. Makris, and P. Ratilal, “Spawning behavior and spatial distribution of Atlantic herring on Georges Bank revealed by Ocean Acoustic Waveguide Remote Sensing”, J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 122, 3003 (presentation at the 154th ASA meeting at New Orleans, LA, 2007).

M. Andrews, Z. Gong, D. C. Cocuzzo, and P. Ratilal, “High-resolution population density imaging of random scatterers through cross-spectral coherence in matched filter variance”, Progress in Electromagnetics Research Symposium PIERS conference in Cambridge, MA, 2008