The research topics of ocean acoustic information & detection area focus on marine biosonar, new artificial materials of underwater acoustics, oceanacousticdetectiontechniques, characterization and application of advanced piezoelectric materials, image signal processing, and pattern recognition.
★Marine biosonar
The research interests in this field include the biomedical imaging technique, signal processing, and numerical modeling with application in acoustical characteristic and biosonar mechanism of marine mammalsand fishes. The researchalso include animal sound communication, underwater noise effect, and acoustic scattering.
★New artificial materials of underwater acoustics
The research interests in this field include designing new artificial materials of underwater acoustics, and the transmission property of energy flux in acoustic artificial structures such as phononic crystal, acoustic metamaterials, and biomimetic materials.
★Ocean acoustic detection techniques
The research interests in this field include high frequency acoustic tomography in coastal area with the application of floodmonitoring, acoustic detection and sensing techniques based on robot fishand other underwater vehicles.
★Nonlinear underwater acoustic signal processing
The research interests in this field include nonlinear underwater acoustic signal processing, stochastic resonance, and chaos communication techniques. Biomedical imaging, numerical modeling, and signal analysis are applied for laryngeal dysphasia and disorder voice assessment.
★Characterization and application of advanced piezoelectric materials
The research interests in this field include the characterization of the temperature dependence of full matrix material constants of piezoelectric single crystals using the ultrasonic pulse-echo, IEEE impedance resonant and resonant ultrasonic spectroscopy techniques, and the application of piezoelectric single crystals in the design of high-frequency ultrasonic transducers and low-frequency underwater transducers.
★Marine engineering structure health monitoring
Our research interests in this field include the active and passive acoustic techniques for the inspection of the submarine oil and gas pipeline leak, and the ultrasonic guided wave technique for the inspection of pipelines and warship hulls.
★Acoustical characteristic of marine mammals
The research interests in this field include acoustic signal processing, image processing, and machine learning with the application in analyzing the acoustical characteristic of marine mammals
