Summary
   
There is an opening for a new PhD student at WISL.
The project is on underwater networking and communications, and is highly multi-disciplinary, involving protocol design, experimentation and system integration. Furthermore, you will work in a team that also includes students from ECE, Scripps Institution of Oceanography and MAE. A brief description of the project is given below.
We are looking for a graduate student, who has funding for at least the first year (e.g. fellowship).
If you are interested, please contact professor Schurgers.

Project overview

Exploring ocean processes and their complex interactions is fundamental to answering many important questions: what is the impact of pollution and climate change, what is the role of micro-organism and what are the intricacies of the underwater ecosystem. A key element in such exploration is gathering relevant data over sufficiently large space and time scales. This has served as our motivation to develop swarms of networked underwater devices that collect data while they drift freely with ocean currents. A number of interesting challenges arise, which we are addressing in a multi-disciplinary together with researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) and the MAE department at UCSD. Within this team effort, our task is to develop underwater communication and networking algorithms to unable the devices to talk to the ship and to each other while submerged. We work on developing new communication algorithms and protocols, both in theory and simulations, as well as testing them out in real life deployments. This research is highly team-oriented, inter-disciplinary and could involve advising undergraduates or developing hardware as well.
More info can be found on the existing project page.