Keynote Talks

Athina P. Petropulu is Distinguished Professor at the Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) Department at Rutgers, having served as chair of the department during 2010-2016.  Prior to joining Rutgers she was a Professor of ECE at Drexel University (1992-2010). She held Visiting Scholar appointments at SUPELEC, Universite’ Paris Sud, Princeton University and University of Southern California.

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Gaspare Galati received the Dr. Ing. Degree (Laurea) in Nuclear Engineering in 1970. From 1970 until 1986, he was with the company Selenia S.p.A. where he was involved in radar systems analysis and design and, from 1984 to 1986, headed the System Analysis Group.

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Felix J. Yanovsky (IEEE M’94–SM’96–F’08–LF’20) graduated (with Honors) from the National Aviation University (NAU), Kyiv, Ukraine. He got his PhD degree in Radar & Radio Navigation, DSc degree (habilitation) in Aviation Meteorology, and the one more DSc in Radar & Radio Navigation in 1979, 1992, and 1993 respectively.

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Analysis of underwater soundscapes aims to detect and classify acoustic events in 3 main categories: sounds from the environment (geophony), from the living non-human species (biophony), from human activities (anthrophony). One of the objectives is to describe how the anthropic sounds impacts the marine ecosystem.

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Mark E. Davis has over 50 years’ experience in Radar technology and systems development. He has held senior management positions in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), Air Force Research Laboratory, and General Electric Aerospace.

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Fabrizio Berizzi was born in Piombino (Italy) on 25-th of November 1965. He is a full professor at the University of Pisa currently suspended since May 2018 to be a temporary agent of the European Defence Agency (EDA) with the role of Project Officer of Electro-Optical Sensors Technologies.

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Patrick Dewilde (EE `66 KULeuven, Belgian Lic. Math. `68 and PhD `70 Stanford University) has
been a professor in Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Delft for 31 years, director of the Delft Institute for Micro-electronics DIMES for ten years, chairman of the Technology Foundation STW (a major Dutch research funding agency) for eight years and director of the Institute of Advanced Study of the TU Munich for five years.

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Maciej Łopatka is a Policy Adviser for research and innovation at the European Innovation Council and SME Executive Agency (EISMEA) established by the European Commission to support development of breakthrough technologies and game changing innovations. He worked for the European Commission’s Research Executive Agency as Project Officer and Joint Research Centre as Scientific Officer, NATO Undersea Research Centre as Research Assistant, …

Professor Artur Lorens Ph.D. Eng., head of the Department of Auditory Implant and Perception of World hearing Center of the Institute of Physiology and Pathology of Hearing, Warsaw, Poland.

               Scientific experience in the field of auditory implants, psychoacoustics and auditory perception modeling.

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Sankar Basu is a program Director at the US National Science Foundation. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He received a PhD from the University of Pittsburgh, served on the faculty of Stevens Institute of Technology, was a visiting senior scientist Naval Underwater Systems Center, CT.

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