You now can download David’s Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics paper that won the student paper award for the Sydney Acoustics 23 meeting
https://doi.org/10.1121/2.0001849
UMass also featured David in a news release about his student paper contest award
https://www.umassd.edu/news/2024/david-anchieta-asa-best-paper.html
Congrats to SPG alum Kaushallya Adhikari, Professor of Electrical, Biomedical and Computer Engineering at the University of Rhode Island, for winning the URI Early Career Faculty Research and Scholarship Excellence Award! The award recognizes Kaushallya for outstanding research and scholarship and her important contributions to URI’s intellectual community. Kaushallya will be recognized at an awards ceremony at URI in early May.
PhD student David Campos Anchieta won a POMA Student Best Paper award from the Acosutical Society of America for his recent paper “Robust power spectral density estimation via a performance-weighted blend of order statistics” presented at the ASA’s December 2023 meeting in Sydney, Australia. Congrats to David for this recognition!
March 21st was the 256th anniversary of Joseph Fourier’s birth. Fourier was the father of signal processing and data science. We celebrated his milestone with a cake!
We weren’t the only ones celebrating. Our friends and colleagues in the Stony Brook University College of Engineering and Applied Sciences also served Fourier themed baked goods.
Saurav’s Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics paper describing the Double-Zero MVDR beamformer from his PhD work was published this week
Wonderful to see this published as we continue to extend this beamformer in our recent beamforming research
Four members of the group presented research at the IEEE Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Workshop last week in Exeter, RI. Congrats to Savas, David, Chris and CJ on giving great talks. We also seized the opportunity to get a photo of all of the UMassD Signal Processing Group extended academic family at the workshop, with Dr. David Hague (NUWC/NPT) and Prof. Kaushallya Adhikari (URI) joining us, along with Kaushallya’s students.
We took a break from our usual group meetings to have a short hike in Paskamansett Woods on 17 October 2023.
Congrats to Savas who passed his oral comprehensive exam on Friday!
His dissertation proposal title is Mitigating Interferer Motion with Universal Adaptive Beamformers
Our group meeting last week was a game of mini golf – a great way to enjoy the summer weather. Congrats to Brandon who is this year’s SPG mini golf champion. Brandon also did a great job analyzing the “data” created by our scores (see figure below)
We had another day cruise out to visit our mooring on the Encourager with Captain Jarrett Drake. This time we did a quick turn-around: replacing the batteries and SD card with the acoustic data, then replacing the mooring to collect another 6 weeks or so of data. Perfect weather and calm seas made for an easy cruise. 
