VILLEURBANNE cedex
Born in Beirut 02/08/1955, French Citizen
Fluent (reading & writing) in French English & Arabic
SPECIALIST in UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS, SIGNAL PROCESSING & SONAR SYSTEMS
Professor at ENSAM since 2011
Visiting Scientist at NURC, NATO Undersea Research Centre, (09-11)
Professor at the French Naval Academy (01-08)
01-03: Deputy-Director of IRENAV & head of Underwater Acoustics Group
90-00: Head of Laboratoire d’Acoustique, Systèmes, Signaux & Sonar LASSSO/CPE, Lyon
Fellow Member of the Acoustical Society of America
Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineering
Co-chair of ACOUSTICS’08 PARIS (joint SFA-EAA-SFA conference)
IEEE/OES Technology Committee co-chair (underwater acoustics, since 06)
Program Director of French network on education & research in underwater acoustics (02-05, 05-07)
Responsible of imaging and inversion group, ” waves” (GDR-CNRS, National Research Centre, 02-06)
European Acoustics Association, Past Director: 99-01, Executive Director: 96-99
Soc. Française d’Acoustique, President (92-94, 94-96), Vice-President (91-92)
PUBLICATIONS (349 publications & reports)
26 Publications in international Journals
8 Participations to books and Book editing
133 Publications in conferences
182 Internal and contract reports
SCIENTIFIC CRUISES (11)
Participated to 11 scientific cruises for the validation of new sonar concepts:
4 on fisheries acoustics (wideband sounder), 2 on bottom characterization and measurement of reflection coefficient), 2 on underwater acoustic navigation and positioning (AUV and torpedo navigation),3 on sidescan sonar imaging (synthetic aperture and/or parametric sidescan sonar).
PROTOTYPES (11)
Participated to the design and construction of 11 sonar prototypes:
parametric synthetic aperture interferometric sonar, airborne parametric sonar for in-situ characterization of material properties, passive airborne synthetic aperture sonar for noise source localization on cars and trucks, passive imaging system for the identification of vibro-acoustic sources in a truck cabin,acoustic positioning for towed arrays, wideband low frequency synthetic aperture imaging and mapping sonar, wideband synthetic aperture imaging sonar, high accuracy, large range acoustic navigation systems for torpedoes,wideband sounder for fish species classification at sea, improved range long baseline for underwater navigation, interferometric correlation sonar for fisheries in lake and rivers
RESEARCH CONTRACTS (64)
Scientific responsible of 10 European contracts; Coordinator of 4 EC projects;among them 3 are cited among the 36 examples of projects by the European Commission.
20 Contracts French Ministry of Defense (DGA, DCN, DRET, DCE).
18 Contracts French oceanography center, IFREMER.
16 Other contracts.
SCIENTIFIC SUPERVISION
17 PhD Thesis
31 DEA-Master thesis & more than 70 final year engineering students’ projects (master in engineering)
PARTICIPATION to SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES
Société Française d’Acoustique, SFA, Fellow Member of Acoustical Society of America, ASA, member of ASA Technical Committee on Acoustical Oceanography (200-2001), Institute of Acoustics, IOA, Société des Électriciens & des Électroniciens, SEE, Senior Member of IEEE, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers, , co-chair of the Ocean Engineering Society Technical Committee on underwater acoustics.
Citation in the Who’s Who in the World since 1991.
CHAIRMAN of 6 CONFERENCES
Co-chair Acoustics’08 Paris (world’s largest meeting on acoustics, 5000 persons): 155th ASA Meeting, 5th Forum Acusticum (EAA), and 9th Congrès Français d’Acoustique (SFA) integrating 7th euronoise & 9th ecua
Chair of French workshop on underwater acoustics (JASM Brest-02-04),
Chair of 5th European Conference on Underwater Acoustics, (ECUA 00-Lyon),
Chair of European Workshop on Parametric Arrays (Lyon-95),
Chair of the 1st French Conf. on acoustics(Lyon-90).
PARTICIPATIONS to SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES
45 International Conferences
Mes compétences :
Sonar
