Yanwu Zhang

Yanwu Zhang (S'95–M'00) was born in 1969 in Shaanxi Province, China. He received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering and the M.S. degree in underwater acoustics engineering from Northwestern Polytechnic University, Xi'an, China, in 1989 and 1991, respectively. He received the M.S. degree in electrical engineering and computer science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, in 1998 and the Ph.D. degree in oceanographic engineering from the MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in 2000. From June to December 2000, he was a Systems Engineer working on medical image processing with the General Electric Company Research and Development Center, Niskayuna, NY. From 2001 to 2004, he was a Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Engineer and then a Senior DSP Engineer with Aware Inc., Bedford, MA, working on digital communications. Since December 2004, he has been with the Research and Development Division of the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, as an Engineering Research Specialist engaged in autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and ocean observing systems. His current research interests are mainly in spatiotemporal signal processing and its applications to AUVs' sampling of oceanographic processes. He has published papers in IEEE JOURNAL OF OCEANIC ENGINEERING, IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON NEURAL NETWORKS, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, and conference proceedings. He is the author of a chapter on “Complex-Valued Generalized Hebbian Algorithm and Its Applications to Sensor Array Signal Processing” in Complex-Valued Neural Networks: Theories and Applications (Singapore: World Scientific, 2003). Dr. Zhang is a member of Sigma Xi. He was a Finalist for MIT Technology Review Magazine's 100 young innovators (TR100) in 1999.