Yanwu Zhang, Ph.D.
Senior Research Specialist
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
7700 Sandholdt Road
Moss Landing, CA 95039
Phone: (831) 775-2028
Fax: (831) 775-1646
email: yzhang at mbari dot org

Education and Work Experience

Yanwu Zhang 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. In 1998, he received the M.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and the M.S. degree in Oceanographic Engineering from the MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) Joint Program. In June 2000, he received the Ph.D. degree in Oceanographic Engineering from the MIT/WHOI Joint Program.

From June to December 2000, Dr. Zhang was a Systems Engineer working on medical image processing at the General Electric Company Research and Development Center, Niskayuna, NY. From January 2001 to November 2004, he was a Digital Signal Processing (DSP) Engineer and then promoted to a Senior DSP Engineer at Aware Inc., Bedford, MA, working on digital communications. Since December 2004, he has been with the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, as a Senior Research Specialist engaged in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) and ocean observing systems. Dr. Zhang’s current research interests are mainly in spatio-temporal signal processing and its applications to AUVs’ sampling of oceanographic processes. He served as a reviewer for IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Deep-Sea Research, Ocean Engineering (Elsevier), and International Journal of Neural Systems, as well as for National Science Foundation (NSF) and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) proposals.

Dr. Zhang is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) since 2005. He is a member of American Geophysical Union (AGU), and a member of Sigma Xi.

Selected Publications

Book Chapter

Y. Zhang, "Chapter 11: Complex-Valued Generalized Hebbian Algorithm and Its Applications to Sensor Array Signal Processing," in Complex-Valued Neural Networks: Theories and Applications (Editor: Prof. Akira Hirose of the University of Tokyo Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering), Volume 5 in Series on Innovative Intelligence, pp. 227-250, River Edge, NJ: World Scientific Publishing Co., 2003.

Refereed Journal Papers

Copyright Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) for papers 2, 3, 4, 6, 7. Copyright American Geophysical Union (AGU) for paper 1. Copyright American Meteorological Society (AMS) for paper 5. Personal use of the materials is permitted. However, permission to reprint/republish the materials for advertising or promotional purposes or for creating new collective works for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or to reuse any copyrighted components of the works in other works must be obtained from IEEE, AGU, and AMS, respectively.
  1. Y. Zhang and J. G. Bellingham, “An Efficient Method of Selecting Ocean Observing Locations for Capturing the Leading Modes and Reconstructing the Full Field”, Journal of Geophysical Research (Oceans), 113, C04005, DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004327, April 2008.

  2. Y. Zhang, A. B. Baggeroer, and J. G. Bellingham, “The Total Variance of a Periodogram-Based Spectral Estimate of a Stochastic Process with Spectral Uncertainty and Its Application to Classifier Design”, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, Vol. 53, No. 12, pp. 4556-4567, December 2005.

  3. Y. Zhang, A. B. Baggeroer, and J. G. Bellingham, “Spectral-Feature Classification of Oceanographic Processes Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle”, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 726-741, October 2001.

  4. J. S. Willcox, J. G. Bellingham, Y. Zhang, A. B. Baggeroer, “Performance Metrics of Oceanographic Surveys with Autonomous Underwater Vehicles,” IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 26, No. 4, pp. 711-725, October 2001.

  5. Y. Zhang, K. Streitlien, J. G. Bellingham, and A. B. Baggeroer, “Acoustic Doppler Velocimeter Flow Measurement from an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle with Applications to Deep Ocean Convection,” Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology, Vol. 18, No. 12, pp. 2038-2051, December 2001.

  6. Y. Zhang and Y. Ma, “CGHA for Principal Component Extraction in the Complex Domain,” IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks, Vol. 8, No. 5, pp. 1031-1036, September 1997.

  7. Y. Zhang and Y. Ma, "An Efficient Architecture for Real-Time Narrowband Beamforming" IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, Vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 635-638, October 1994.

  8. Y. Zhang, G. Xiao, X. Shi, and Y. Ma, “Hardware Design of a Signal Processing Module Composed of TMS320C25 Chips,” Journal of Data Acquisition and Processing (in Chinese), Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 273-278, December 1992.

  9. Y. Zhang and Y. Ma “Software Design of a Multi-Beamformer Implemented by TMS320C25 Chips,” Applied Acoustics (in Chinese), Vol. 11, No. 4, pp. 22-25, July 1992.

MIT Ph.D. Thesis (Advisors: Prof. Arthur Baggeroer and Dr. James Bellingham)
"Spectral Feature Classification of Oceanographic Processes Using an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle" (Copyright Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2000)

Curriculum Vitae

Profile in Two if by Sea, MIT Sea Grant/WHOI Sea Grant Joint Newsletter, 1999

Last updated: Apr. 04, 2008