Track 10

Underwater Acoustic Signal Processing Theory, Method, and System


1. Track Chairs:
Prof. Xionghou Liu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Assoc. Prof. Lei Xie, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China
Prof. Lei Cheng, Zhejiang University, China
Assoc. Prof. Shuai Yao, Southeast University, China
Prof. Xiao Han, Harbin Engineering University, China
Assoc. Prof. Yubo Qi, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Science, China
Assoc. Prof. Yuehai Zhou, Xiamen University, China


2. Track Topics:
Potential topics of interest include but are not limited to:

▪ Underwater Acoustic Target Detection and Estimation
▪ Underwater Acoustic Target Localization and Tracking
▪ Underwater Acoustic Target Feature Extraction and Recognition
▪ Underwater Acoustic Mode-based Signal Processing
▪ Underwater Acoustic Distributed Processing and Information Fusion
▪ Underwater Acoustic Imaging and Tomography
▪ Underwater Acoustic Communication
▪ Underwater Acoustic Signal Analysis
▪ Underwater Acoustic System Performance Evaluation
▪ Underwater Acoustic Transducer and Array
▪ Underwater Acoustic Experiment


3. Introduction of Track Chairs

Prof. Xionghou Liu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Xionghou Liu received the B.S. degree in environmental engineering and Ph.D. degree in underwater acoustic engineering from School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU), Xi’an, P. R. China, in June 2008 and July 2014, respectively.
He is currently an associate professor and a supervisor of doctoral students with the School of Marine Science and Technology, NWPU. His main research interests include sonar signal processing, sonar imaging, underwater target detection and recognition, and related fields. He has published more than 30 papers on Applied Acoustics, IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters, IET Radar, Sonar and Navigation, IEEE OCEANS Conference, and so on. Meanwhile, he has been served as Session Chairs of WESPAC2015 Singapore, IEEE OCEANS’16 Shanghai, IEEE OCEANS’19 Marseille, ICSPS 2022.



Assoc. Prof. Lei Xie, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China

Lei Xie received the B.S. degree in information technology and the Ph.D. degree in underwater acoustic engineering from the School of Marine Science and Technology, Northwestern Polytechnical University (NWPU), Xi’an, China, in 2011 and 2018, respectively. From 2018 to 2021, as a postdoctoral researcher, he was engaged in the research of ocean internal waves at Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China.
He is currently an associate professor and master supervisor of School of Marine Science and Technology, NWPU. His main research interests include ocean acoustics, underwater acoustic propagation in complex waveguide, underwater acoustic signal processing and parameter estimation. He has published more than 20 papers on Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, IEEE Access, IEEE OCEANS Conference, and so on. He serves as a reviewer for several journals, including Acta Acoustica, Chinese Physic B, IEEE Access.



Prof. Lei Cheng, Zhejiang University, China

Lei Cheng is currently ZJU Young Professor with the College of Information Science and Electronic Engineering, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China. He received the B.Eng. degree from Zhejiang University in 2013, and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Hong Kong in 2018. He was a Research Scientist in Shenzhen Research Institute of Big Data, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, from 2018 to 2021. He is the author of the book “Bayesian Tensor Decomposition for Signal Processing and Machine Learning”, Springer, 2023. He was a Tutorial Speaker in IEEE ICASSP 2023, Invited Speaker in ASA 2024 and IEEE COA 2014. He is now Associate Editor for Elsevier Signal Processing and Young Editor for Acta Acustica.



Assoc. Prof. Shuai Yao, Southeast University, China

Dr. Shuai Yao is currently an associate professor in School of Information Science and Engineering, Southeast University (SEU). His research interests include underwater acoustic signal processing, array signal processing, signal detection and parameter estimation, and time-frequency analysis. He has taken charge of more than 5 projects such as the National Natural Science Foundation of China and the pre-researches of the 13th Five-Year Plan. He has published nearly 20 papers and authorized more than 10 patents as the first author. As one of the main contributors, he won the First Grade Science and Technology Progress Award of the Ministry of Education in 2017, the Second Grade National Science and Technology Progress Award in 2018, and the First Grade Science and Technology Progress Award from CSSC in 2019.



Prof. Xiao Han, Harbin Engineering University, China

Xiao Han received the B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in underwater acoustic engineering from Harbin Engineering University, Harbin, China, in 2011, 2014, and 2016, respectively, where he is currently a professor with the College of Underwater Acoustic Engineering. He has been a visiting scholar with Acoustic Research Laboratory, National University of Singapore from April 2019 to April 2020. He serves as the youth editorial board or editorial board member of several journals, such as Acta Acustica, Journal of Signal Processing, Journal of Marine Science and Application. He serves as a member of the Underwater Communication Professional Committee of the China Institute of Communications, a member of the Youth Working Committee of the China Naval Architecture Engineering Society. He has published more than 40 research papers in related journals. He is the holder of more than 20 patents. He is the principle investigator of more than ten research projects. He won the first prize of Heilongjiang Provincial Science and Technology Progress Award, the first prize of Ocean Engineering Science and Technology Award, etc. His research interests include underwater acoustic communication and networking, polar acoustic and information technology.



Assoc. Prof. Yubo Qi, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Science, China

Dr. Yubo Qi is now an associate professor and a master supervisor at the State Key Laboratory of Acoustics, Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences. He received the B.S. degree in Ocean Technology from Ocean University of China in 2010, and the Ph.D. degree in Acoustics from the Institute of Acoustics, Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2015. From 2013 to 2014, he was a joint training of doctoral student at the Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington. His research interests include source localization and detection in both shallow and deep water, geoacoustic inversion, and array signal processing. Dr. Qi has authored over forty research papers and been granted over ten patents. He is a reviewer for journals such as The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, JASA Express Letters, Applied Acoustics, and a communication reviewer for the National Natural Science Foundation of China. He was awarded the President Prize of Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Frontrunner 5000 Top Articles in Outstanding S&T Journal of China. He has presided over five scientific research projects as the principal investigator including two projects founded by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and participated as a core member in more than ten research projects.



Assoc. Prof. Yuehai Zhou, Xiamen University, China

Yuehai Zhou received the bachelor's, master's, and Ph.D. degrees in marine sciences from the College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China, in 2010, 2013, and 2018, respectively. He is currently an Associate Professor with the College of Ocean and Earth Sciences, Xiamen University. From February 2016 to January 2018, he was a Visiting Student with the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL, USA. From 2018 to 2020, he was a Postdoctoral Researcher with the Acoustic and Navigation Laboratory, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel. His research interests include underwater acoustic signal processing, underwater acoustic network, and underwater acoustic modem design.