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Curriculum Vitae
NAME: Rex Kelley Andrew
DEGREES:
B.S. Physics with college honors (1981) and M.S.E.E. (1987), University of
Washington, Seattle, Washington. Ph.D. Electrical & Computer Engineering,
University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C (1997).
PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS
1. Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineers, Signal Processing Society
2. Member of the Acoustical Society of America
3. Member of the Northwest Chapter of the Acoustical
Society of America
4. American Mensa (lifetime member)
CAREER HISTORY
2007 - present:
Senior Engineer, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington,
Seattle, Washington.
1999 - 2007:
Engineer, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington,
Seattle, Washington.
1997 - 1998:
Senior Research (post-doctoral) Fellow, Diagnostic Imaging Sciences Center,
Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington (working
with Brent Stewart on wavelet-based video codecs for diagnostic ultrasound
teleradiology.)
1997 - 1999:
Algorithm Developer, ioptics, Inc., Bellevue, Washington.
1991 - 1997:
Research Assistant, Centre for Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of
Victoria, Victoria, B.C.
1987 - 1991: Project Engineer, Acoustics Systems Branch, Naval Undersea Warfare Engineering
Station, Keyport, WA.
1986 - 1987:
Research Assistant, Department of Electrical Engineering, University of
Washington, Seattle, WA.
1983 - 1986:
Electrical Engineering Stores Manager, Department of Electrical Engineering,
University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
PUBLICATIONS
Ph.D. Thesis
Rex K. Andrew, Broadband
Acoustical Superresolution Imaging of Breaking Ocean Waves, University of
Victoria (November 1997).
Publications
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Rex K. Andrew, Bruce M. Howe, James A. Mercer,
"Transverse horizontal spatial coherence of deep arrivals at megameter ranges",
J. Acoust. Soc. Am.
117(3), pp 1511-1526 (2005).
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Jessica C. Burtenshaw, Erin M. Oleson, John A. Hildebrand, Mark A. McDonald,
Rex K. Andrew, Bruce M. Howe, James A. Mercer,
"Acoustic and satellite remote sensing of blue whale seasonality and
habitat in the Northeast Pacific", Deep Sea Res. II
51, pp 967 - 985 (2004).
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Rex K. Andrew, Bruce M. Howe and James A. Mercer,
"Whale Contribution to Long Time Series of Low-Frequency Oceanic Ambient Sound (U)
", (S) U. S. Navy J. Underwater Acoustics, July 2002.
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Rex K. Andrew, Bruce M. Howe, James A. Mercer, Matthew A. Dzieciuch,
"Ocean ambient sound: comparing the 1960s with the 1990s for a
receiver off the California coast", Acoustics Res. Letters Online
3(1), pp 65 - 70 (2002).
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Rex K. Andrew, David M.
Farmer, R. Lynn Kirlin, "Broadband Parametric Imaging of Breaking Ocean
Waves", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 110(1), pp 150-162 (2001).
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Rex K. Andrew, R. Lynn
Kirlin, "A Broadband Maximum Likelihood Imager for a Class of Space-Time
Separable Sources", IEEE Trans. on
Signal Processing 48(5), pp 1287-1294 (2000).
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Rex K. Andrew, R. Lynn Kirlin,
"An Equality Test for Variances of Two Complex Correlated
Gaussian Processes", IEEE Trans.
on Signal Processing 48(8), pp 2452 - 2454 (2000).
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Invited Lectures and Papers
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Rex K. Andrew, Charlotte V. Leigh, Chris D. Jones, "Then and Now"; Observations
and Comments on 30 Years of Ocean Ambient Noise off the West Coast , invited lecture for
Marine Animals and Human Noise , a national lecture series sponsored by
the National Marine Fisheries Service of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,
Seattle Aquarium, Seattle, WA, September 30, 2004.
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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "Long-Time Trends in Oceanic Ambient
Noise along the Western North American Coast", invited paper,
Pacific Rim Underwater Acoustics Conference 2007, October 2007,
Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Conference Publications and Presentations
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Rex K. Andrew, K. Ho and
Charles E. Schmid, "Measurement Accuracy of MVDR Adaptive
Beamformers", 119th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, State
College, PA, USA, June, 1990 [J. Acoust. Soc. Am.,
vol. 87 (1), S154(A)].
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Rex K. Andrew, David M.
Farmer, R. Lynn Kirlin, "Broadband Acoustical Imaging of Breaking Ocean
Waves", 133rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, State
College, PA, USA, June, 1997 [J.
Acoust. Soc. Am., vol. 101(5), pg 3032 (A).]
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RK Andrew, BK Stewart, SG
Langer and KC Stegbauer, "Wavelet Compression of Ultrasound Video
Streams for Teleradiology", IEEE
International Conference on Information Technology Applications in
Biomedicine, pp. 15 - 19, Washington D.C., May, 1998.
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BK Stewart, SJ Carter, SG
Langer and RK Andrew, "Compressed Ultrasound Video Image Quality
Evaluation Using a Likert Scale and Kappa Statistical Analysis",
Proc. SPIE 1998; 3335: pp 365 - 377.
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RK Andrew, BK Stewart, SG
Langer and KC Stegbauer, "A Novel Wavelet Compression Codec for Pre-Scan
Converted Diagnostic Ultrasound Video",
Radiology 1998; 209P;RSNA Scientific Exhibit.
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SG Langer, BK Stewart, RK
Andrew, SJ Carter, "World Wide Web based Tool for Subjective Human
Observer Ranking of Compressed Ultrasound Images",
Radiology 1998; 209P; RSNA
Scientific Exhibit.
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KC Stegbauer, RK Andrew, SG
Langer, SJ Carter and BK Stewart, "The Use of Fourier Domain Subsampling
for Real-Time Wavelet Compression of Ultrasound Video",
Radiology 1998; 209P;
RSNA Scientific Exhibit.
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BK Stewart, SJ Carter, SG
Langer and RK Andrew, "Evaluation of Compressed Ultrasound Video Image
Quality Using a Likert Scale and Kappa Statistics",
Radiology 1998; 209P; RSNA Scientific Exhibit.
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RK Andrew, BK Stewart, SG
Langer, KC Stegbauer, "A 3-D Wavelet-based Codec for Lossy Compression
of Pre-Scan-Converted Ultrasound Video",
SPIE Medical Imaging 1999.
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SG Langer, BK Stewart, RK
Andrew, "A Web-based tool for Subjective Observer Ranking of Compressed
Medical Images", SPIE Medical Imaging, 1999.
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KC Stegbauer, BK Stewart,
SG Langer and RK Andrew, "The Use of Fourier Domain Subsampling for
Real-Time Wavelet Compression of Ultrasound Video",
SPIE Medical Imaging 1999.
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Rex K. Andrew,
"Radiated Autospectra over [160 Hz, 2000 Hz] of Individual Breaking
Ocean Waves", Conference Proceedings for Acoustics Week in Canada 1999,
Victoria, Canada, October 1999; also Canadian Acoustics 27
(3) pp 28-29, 1999.
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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "Fundamental Coherence Measures of Long Range
Low Frequency SOFAR Channel Signals",
4th Submarine Acoustic Superiority Workshop, NUWC division Newport, Rhode Island,
April 1999.
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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "Six year records of low frequency ambient sound
in the North Pacific",
139th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Atlanta, GA, June 2000
[J. Acoust. Soc. Am.107(5), pg 2922 (A).]
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RK Andrew, "NPAL Experimental Data Review -- SOSUS Arrays",
Second NPAL Data Analysis Workshop, Leavenworth, WA., October 2000.
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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "Fourier component fluctuations of wideband
ocean tomography signals: empirical temporal statistics",
Second NPAL Data Analysis Workshop, Leavenworth, WA., October 2000.
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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "Angle-of-arrival analysis for site D signals
(AST96 and NPAL)",
Second NPAL Data Analysis Workshop, Leavenworth, WA., October 2000.
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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "Six-year record of low-frequency ambient sound
in the North Pacific Ocean",
Second NPAL Data Analysis Workshop, Leavenworth, WA., October 2000.
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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "Fourier component fluctuations of wideband
ocean tomography signals: empirical temporal statistics from AST96",
140th meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Newport Beach, CA, December 2000
[J. Acoust. Soc. Am.108(5), pg 2543 (A).]
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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "A comparison of ocean ambient sound levels
after 30 years for a coastal site off California ",
Third NPAL Data Analysis Workshop, Chicago, IL, May 2001.
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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "A comparison of ocean ambient sound levels
after 30 years for a coastal site off California ",
141st Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Chicago, IL, June 2001
[J. Acoust. Soc. Am.109(5) pt 2, pg 2386.]
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JA Hildebrand, MA McDonald, RK Andrew, JA Mercer, BM Howe "Multiyear
study of blue whale calls in the north Pacific ",
142nd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, November 2001,
[J. Acoust. Soc. Am.110(5) pg 2771.]
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RK Andrew, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "Whale contribution to
long time series of low-frequency oceanic ambient sound ",
143rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Pittsburgh, PA, May 2002,
[J. Acoust. Soc. Am.111(5) pg 2371.]
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RK Andrew, CV Leigh, BM Howe, JA Mercer, "Eight-year records of low-frequency
ambient sound in the North Pacific ",
144th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, Cancun, MX, December, 2002,
[J. Acoust. Soc. Am.112(12) pg 2260.]
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Technical Papers and Reports
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"Parallel Processing : A Very Brief Survey ",
management white paper on the state of the
art in parallel processing, Research and Engineering Department, Code 70,
Naval Undersea Warfare Engineering Station, Keyport, WA., October 1988.
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"QSAM Signal Processing Development:
Getting from Here to There ", management white paper describing a plan of
action for the development of the data processing component of an underwater
beamforming acoustic measurement system, Acoustics Division, Code 70C1, Naval
Undersea Warfare Engineering Station, Keyport, WA., March 1990.
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3.
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"Broadband Acoustical
Imaging of Breaking Ocean Waves", invited lecture at the November 1998
meeting of the Northwest Chapter of the Acoustical Society of America
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