Professor Nicholas Makris
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Research: |
Ocean exploration, undersea remote sensing of marine life
and geophysical phenomena, census of marine life, ocean acoustic hurricane classification, Europa ice sheet fracture mechanics and seismics, wave propagation and scattering theory in remote sensing through random media and waveguides, statistical estimation and information theory in sensing, linear and nonlinear acoustics and seismics, musical instrument acoustics and evolution. |
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Current Graduate Students: Postdoctoral Associate: |
Daniel Duane, Arun Krishnadas, Shourav Pednekar, Eleftherios Kaklamanis, Felix Piavsky
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Teaching: | 2.065, 2.066 Acoustic Sensing 2.007 Design and Manufacturing I 2.003 Dynamics and Control I 2.001 Mechanics and Materials 2.671 Measurement & Instrumentation 2.03 Dynamics I 2.031 Dynamics II 2.06J Mechanical Vibration 13.851 Fundamentals and Applications of Underwater Sound 13.015J Mechanical Systems, Signal Processing, and Stochastics 13.A15 Acoustical Oceanography |
Education: | PhD in Ocean Engineering, MIT 1991, SB in Physics, MIT 1983. |
Previous Employment: | Naval Research Laboratory, Washington DC, 1991-1997 |
(** indicates papers with Makris’ students)
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