Student Award 2017
First 3 medals and diplomas were held to the students during the closing ceremony of the UA Conference in 2017, Skiatos, Greece. The Scientific Committee for the international Students Award were the following:
Professor David Bradley (chairman), professor Michael Taroudakis, Research Professor, Director, Center for Acoustics Research and EducationJennifer L. Miksis-Olds.
The three Student award winners were:
1. Tannaz Haji Mohammadloo (Delft University of Technology) - “Assessing the repeatability of sediment classification method and the limitations of using depth residuals”,
2. Jodi Walsh (University of Exeter & University of Bath) - “Acoustic life cycle assessment of offshore renewables – Implications from a wave-energy converter deployment in Falmouth Bay, UK”
3. Dezhi Wang (Academy of Marine Science and Engineering, National University of Defense Technology, Changsha, China) - “Classification of Whale Calls based on Transfer Learning and Convolutional Neural Network”.
Winners of Student Award 2019
In 2019 Judging Committee for Leif Bjørnø International Student Award in 2019 was the following:
Jennifer L. Miksis-Olds, Research Professor, Director, Center for Acoustics Research and Education (chairperson), professor David Bradley, professor Michael Taroudakis.
And the Student prices were the following:
Best paper and Student Grant (First Place in competition) - Gold Medal:
David Geroski for the paper: “Out of Band Signal Processing for Localizing
Distant Sources in a Noisy Deep Ocean”
Second Place: (Silver medal and diploma)
Filippo Campagnaro for the paper: “Data collection in shallow fresh water scenarios
with low cost underwater acoustic modems”
3th place and bronze medal:
Jonas von Pein for the paper: “Identification of high noise zones with a 3D pile
driving noise model”
It was 3 nominee who were honored with “Leif Bjørnø Badges”
1. Ernst Uzhansky “Variability of the sound field in the presence of
internal Kelvin waves in a stratified lake”
2. Tannaz Haji Mohammadloo “Assessment of Reliability of Multi-Beam Echo-
Sounder Bathymetric Uncertainty Prediction Models”
3. 6 Muriel Dunn “Development of acoustic Doppler fish monitoring
for applications in high-energy tidal channels”
Moments from Celebration 2019
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