Bridge to Ocean Acoustics & Technology

Aditya is currently pursuing a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington. He earned a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington in 2024. His introduction to acoustics started with using Audiomoth recorders to monitor nearby bat populations via their echolocation calls. Becoming fascinated by the process of echolocation, Aditya now wishes to explore how echolocating animals make decisions using acoustic inputs.

Caesar earned a B.S. in Mathematics from the University of Washington in 2023 and is currently pursuing an M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics also at the University of Washington, expecting to graduate in 2025. He is a developer and maintainer of the Echopype open-source Python package, which enables scalable echosounder data processing. Using Echopype as a foundation, Caesar conducts research in machine learning applications for fisheries acoustics.

Todd Hefner received the B.S. degree in physics from Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, USA, in 1994, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA, in 1996 and 2000, respectively. He has been involved in a number of at-sea experiments in his time at APL-UW and currently serves as the chair of the Acoustics Department.

Valentina is a research data scientist working at the intersection of oceanography and data science. Her background is in applied math and statistics, and she collaborates with scientists on machine learning and signal processing problems. She regularly teaches workshops on these topics and is devoted to training researchers in best data science practices.

Wu-Jung has a background in electrical engineering and biology. She loves working on problems that cross disciplinary boundaries and enjoys collaborating with people from diverse backgrounds. Her research focuses on active acoustic sensing by humans (acoustical oceanography) and animals (echolocation), with a goal to improve our bility to observe and understand the marine ecosystem. She develops and maintains the open-source Python package Echopype for scalable echosounder data processing, and contributes to building a supportive research community by organizing OceanHackWeek, a workshop focused on data science in oceanography.