Eliza (Z.-H.) Michalopoulou

Contact Information

• Office: 618 Cullimore Hall
• Phone: (973) 596-8395
• Fax: (973) 596-5591
• E-mail: michalop@njit.edu
• Address: Department of Mathematical Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, University Heights, Newark, NJ 07102-1982
• Office Hours: By apppointment.

Background and Research Interests

• Professor, Department of Mathematical Sciences and Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NJIT
• Ph.D., Electrical Engineering, Duke University, 1993
• M.S., Electrical Engineering, Duke University, 1990
• Diploma, Electrical Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 1988

Research areas: ocean acoustics, signal detection and estimation, inverse problems, machine learning.

Selected Publications

Z.-H. Michalopoulou, A. Pole, and A. Abdi, Bayesian coherent and incoherent matched-field localization and detection in the ocean , Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 146, pp. 4812-4820, December 2020.

Z.-H. Michalopoulou and P. Gerstoft, Multipath broadband localization, bathymetry, and sediment inversion, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, pp. 1-11 (online), 2019.

J. Piccolo, G. Haramuniz, and Z.-H. Michalopoulou, Geoacoustic inversion with generalized additive models , Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 145, pp. EL463-EL468, June 2019.

Z.-H. Michalopoulou, Environmental inversion using dispersion tracking in a shallow water environment , Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 143, pp. EL188-EL193, March 2018.

Z.-H. Michalopoulou, Stochastic sediment property inversion in Shallow Water 06 , Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 142, pp. EL495-EL499, November 2017.

Z.-H. Michalopoulou and P. Gerstoft, Passive fathometer reflector identification with phase shift modeling , Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 140, pp. EL125-EL130, July 2016.

Z.-H. Michalopoulou and A. Pole, Sediment sound speed inversion with time-frequency analysis and modal arrival time probability density functions , Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 140, pp. EL131-EL136, July 2016.

T. Lin and Z.-H. Michalopoulou, A direct method for the estimation of sediment sound speed with a horizontal array in shallow water, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 42, pp. 208-218, 2017.

Nattapol Aunsri, Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou, Sequential filtering for dispersion tracking and sediment sound speed inversion , Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 136, pp. 2665-2674, 2014.

Tao Lin, Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou, Sound speed estimation and source localization with linearization and particle filtering , Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 135, pp. 1115-1126, 2014.

C. Yardim, P. Gerstoft, Z.-H. Michalopoulou, Geophysical signal processing using sequential Bayesian techniques , Geophysics, vol. 78, pp. V87-V100, 2013.

Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou, Caglar Yardim, Peter Gerstoft, Particle filtering for passive fathometer tracking , Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 131, pp. EL74-EL80, January 2012.

Rashi Jain and Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou, A particle filtering approach for spatial arrival time tracking in ocean acoustics , Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters, vol. 129, pp. EL236-EL241, June 2011.

Caglar Yardim, Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou, Peter Gerstoft, An overview of sequential Bayesian filtering in ocean acoustics, IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, vol. 36, pp. 71-89, January 2011.

Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou, Suman Mukherjee, Yew Li Hor, Zhiwei Liu, Robert Barat, Dale Gary, John Federici, RDX detection with THz spectroscopy , Journal of Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves, vol. 31, pp. 1171-1181, October 2010.

Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou, Sima Bagheri, Lisa Axe, Bayesian estimation of optical properties of nearshore estuarine waters: A Gibbs sampling approach, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing, vol. 48. pp. 1579 - 1587 , March 2010.

Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou, A Bayesian approach to modal decomposition in ocean acoustics , Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 126, pp. EL147-EL152, November 2009.

Ivan Zorych and Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou, Particle filtering for dispersion curve tracking in ocean acoustics , Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 124, pp. EL45-EL50, August 2008.

Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou, Multiple source localization using a maximum a posteriori Gibbs sampling approach , Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 120, pp. 2627-2634, November 2006.

Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou and Xiaoqun Ma, Source localization in the Haro Strait Primer Experiment using arrival information and linearization , Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, November 2005.

Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou and Michele Picarelli, Gibbs sampling for time delay and amplitude estimation in underwater acoustics, vol. 117, pp. 799-808, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, February 2005.

Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou and Urmi Ghosh-Dastidar, Tabu optimization for matched-field source localization and geoacoustic inversion, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 115, pp. 135-145, 2004.

Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou, Estimating the impulse response of the ocean: correlation vs. deconvolution, Inverse Problems in Underwater Acoustics, M. Taroudakis and G Makrakis, Editors, Springer Verlag, 2001

Zoi-Heleni Michalopoulou, Matched-impulse response processing for shallow water localization and geoacoustic inversion, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 108, pp. 2082-2090, Nov. 2000.

Affiliations

• Department of Mathematical Sciences, NJIT
• Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NJIT
• Center for Applied Mathematics and Statistics ( CAMS ), NJIT
• Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
• Acoustical Society of America
• Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics
• Visiting Professor for AY 2001-2002, Hunter College, City University of New York

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