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KUPERMAN, WILLIAM

Professor of Oceanography

Director, Marine Physical Laboratory

Degrees:

• B.S., Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn
• M.S., University of Chicago
• Ph.D., University of Maryland

Research Interests:

• Global acoustic propagation
• Noise and signal processing
• Inversion and time reversal acoustics
• Seismic imaging with noise

Courses Recently Taught:

• SIO 200A: Ocean Acoustics&Signal Proc I
• SIO 200B: Ocean Acoustics&Signal Proc II
• SIO 202A: Fundamentals of Wave Physics
• SIO200A: Ocean Acoustics&Signal Proc I
• SIO200B: Ocean Acoustics&Signal Proc II
• SIO200C: Ocean Acoustics&Signal ProcIII
• SIO202A: Fundamentals of Wave Physics
• SIO202B: Fundamentals of Wave Physics

Honors and Awards:

• Pioneers of Underwater Acoustics Medal, Acoustical Society of America, 1995
• Special Achievement Award of the National Defense Industrial Association, 2002
• Secretary of the Navy / Chief of Naval Operations Chair for Ocean Science, 2003-
• President of the Acoustical Society of America, 2004-2005
• Elected Member, National Academy of Engineering, 2004

Mentoring:

• Sabra, Karim (Post Doc; 2005-2005)
• Fried, Stephanie (Graduate; 2004-)
• Debever, Claire (Graduate; 2003-)
• Sarkar, Jit (Graduate; 2003-)
• Higley, William (Graduate; 2002-2007)
• Jordan, Jason (Graduate; 2002-2002)
• Walker, Shane (Graduate; 2001-2005)
• DeRosny, Julien (Post Doc; 2000-2001)
• William, Duncan (Graduate; 1999-2001)
• Hursky, Paul (Graduate; 1997-2001)
• Kim, Seongil (Graduate; 1997-2002)
• Roux, Philippe (Post Doc; 1997-1998)
• Song, Hee Chun (Post Doc; 1996-1998)
• Conti, Stephan (Post Doc; 1995-1997)
• Pautet, Lucy (Graduate; 1995-2000)
• Unpincgo, Jose (Graduate; 1995-1999)
• Abawi, Ahmad (Post Doc; 1994-1995)
• Thode, Aaron (Graduate; 1994-1999)
• Turek, Gaby (Post Doc; 1994-1996)
• Heaney, Kevin (Graduate; 1993-1997)

2008. Fried, S., W. A. Kuperman, K. G. Sabra, P. Roux, "Extracting the local Green’s function on a horizontal array from ambient ocean noise," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 124(4) EL183-188 (2008). 2008. Raghukumar, K., B. D. Cornuelle, W. S. Hodgkiss, W. A. Kuperman, "Pressure sensitivity kernels applied to time-reversal acoustics," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 124(1):98-112 (2008).

2007. Walker, S. C., W. A. Kuperman, "Cherenkov-Vavilov formulation of X-waves," Phys. Rev. Lett. 99, 244802 (2007).

2007. Song, H. C., W. S. Hodgkiss, W. A. Kuperman, K. G. Sabra, T. Akal, "Passive reverberation nulling for target enhancement," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 122(6):3296-3303 (2007).

2007. Debever, C., W. A. Kuperman, "Robust matched-field processing using a coherent broadband white noise constraint processor," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 122(4):1979-1986 (2007).

2007. Walker, S. C., P. Roux, W. A. Kuperman, "Modal Doppler theory of an arbitrarily accelerating continuous-wave source applied to mode extraction in the oceanic waveguide," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 122(3):1426-1439 (2007).

2007. Conti, S. G., P. Roux, W. A. Kuperman, "Near-field time-reversal amplification," J. Acoust. Soc Am. 121(6):3602-3604 (2007).

2007. Sabra, K. G., S. Conti, P. Roux, W. A. Kuperman, "Passive in vivo elastography from skeletal muscle noise," Appl. Phys. Lett., 90, 194101 (2007).

2006. Walker, S. C., W. A. Kuperman, P. Roux, "Active waveguide Green’s function estimation with application to time-reversal focusing without a probe source in a range-independent waveguide," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 120(5):2755-2763 (2006).

2006. Sabra, K. G., P. Roux, H. C. Song, W. S. Hodgkiss, W. A. Kuperman, T. Akal, M. Stevenson, "Experimental demonstration of iterative time-reversed reverberation focusing in a rough waveguide application to target detection," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 120(3):1305-1314 (2005).

2006. Gerstoft, P., K. G. Sabra, P. Roux, W. A. Kuperman, M. Fehler, "Green’s functions and surface wave tomography from microseisms in Southern California," Geophys. 71(4), S123-131 (2006).

2006. Higley, W. J., P. Roux, W. A. Kuperman, "Relationship between time reversal and linear equalization in digital communications," J. Acout. Soc. Am., 120(1):35-37 (2006).

2006. Sabra, K. G., P. Roux, P. Gerstoft, W. A. Kuperman, M. Fehler, "Extracting coherent coda arrivals from cross-correlations of long period seismic waves during the Mount St. Helens 2004 eruption," Geophys. Res. Lett. 33, L06313, doi:10.1029/2005GL025563 (2006).

2006. Song, H. C., P. Roux, W. S. Hodgkiss, W. A. Kuperman, T. Akal, M. Stevenson, "Multiple-input/multiple-output coherent time reversal communications in shallow water," IEEE J. Oceanic Engr. 31(1):170-178 (2006).

2005. Edelmann, G. F., W. S. Hodgkiss, S. Kim, W. A. Kuperman, H. C. Song, T. Akal, "Underwater acoustic communication using time reversal," IEEE J. Oceanic Engr., 30(4):852-864 (2005).

2005. Sabra, K. G., P. Roux, W. A. Kuperman, "Emergence rate of the time-domain Green’s function from the ambient noise cross-correlation function," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 118:3524-3531 (2005).

2005. Higley, W. J., P. Roux, W. A. Kuperman, W. S. Hodgkiss, H. C. Song, T. Akal, "Synthetic aperture time-reversal communications in shallow water: experimental demonstration at sea," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 118(4):2365-2372 (2005).

2005. Walker, S. C., P. Roux, W. A. Kuperman, "Data-based mode extraction with a partial water column spanning array," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 118(3):1518-1525 (2005).

2005. Song, H. C., W. S. Hodgkiss, W. A. Kuperman, P. Roux, T. Akal, M. Stevenson, "Experimental demonstration of adaptive reverberation nulling using a time reversal mirror," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 118(3):1381-1387 (2005).

2005. Walker, S. C., P. Roux, W. A. Kuperman, "Focal depth shifting of a time reversal mirror in arrange-independent waveguide," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 118(3):1341-1347 (2005).

2005. Roux, P., K. G. Sabra, P. Gerstoft, W. A. Kuperman, M. Fehler, "P-waves from cross-correlation of seismic noise," Geophys. Res Lett, 32, doi:10.1029/2005GL023803 (2005).

2005. Sabra, K. G., P. Gerstoft, P. Roux, W. A. Kuperman, M. Fehler, "Surface wave tomography from seismic ambient noise in Southern California," Geophys. Res Lett, 32, doi:10.1029-2005Gl023155 (2005).

2005. Sabra, K. G., P. Gerstoft, P. Roux, W. A. Kuperman, M. Fehler, "Extracting time domain Green’s function estimates from ambient seismic noise," Geophys. Res Lett, 32, doi:10:1029-2004GL021862 (2005).

2005. Sabra, K. G., P. Roux, A. M. Thode, G. L. D’Spain, W. H. Hodgkiss, W. A. Kuperman, "Using ocean ambient noise for array self-localization and self-synchronization," IEEE J. Oceanic Engr. 30(2):338-347 (2005).

2005. Sabra, K. G., P. Roux, W. A. Kuperman, "Arrival structure of the time-averaged ambient noise cross-correlation function in an oceanic waveguide," J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 117(1):164-174 (2005).

2005. Roux, P., W. A. Kuperman, "Time reversal of ocean noise," J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117(1):131-136 (2005).

2005. Roux, P., K. G. Sabra, W. A. Kuperman, A. Roux, "Ambient noise correlation in free space: theoretical approach." J. Acoust. Soc. Am., 117(1):79-84 (2005).