Nicholas Makris

Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering
Director of the Laboratory for Undersea Remote Sensing

Room 5-212
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge MA 02139-4307
Phone: 617-258-6104
Fax: 617-253-2350
Email: makris@mit.edu
Web: http://acoustics.mit.edu/faculty/makris/makris.html

Administrative Contact:
Geoff Fox
Room 5-204
Phone: 617-253-9344
Email: gfox@mit.edu

Research Interests

Ocean exploration, undersea remote sensing of marine life and geophysical phenomena, census of marine life, wave propagation and scattering theory in remote sensing through random media and waveguides, statistical estimation and information theory in sensing, linear and nonlinear acoustics and seismics, Europa exploration.

Teaching Interests

Acoustics and Sensing, Statistical Estimation, Dynamics and Mechanical Vibration.

Education

Massachusetts Institute of Technology SB 1983
Massachusetts Institute of Technology PhD 1991

Honors and Awards

NASA Group Achievement Award to Jupiter Icy Moons Orbiter Science Definition Team April 2005
Doherty Professor of Ocean Utilization July 2000
Edgerly Fellow March 2000
Secretary of the Navy/Chief of Naval Operations
Scholar of Oceanographic Sciences 1999-2003
Fellow of the Acoustical Society of America Dec. 1997
ONR Young Investigator May 1996
Alan Berman Outstanding Publication Award, NRL 1996
A. B. Wood Medal, Institute of Acoustics, UK 1995
Navy Special Act Award Feb. 1994

Memberships

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Acoustical Society of America (ASA)
American Geophysical Union (AGU)
Optical Society of America (OSA)
NASA Astrobiological Institute (NAI)
Census of Marine Life (CoML)