Geoffrey S. Edelson received his A.B. in mathematics from Dartmouth College in 1980, his M.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania in 1984, and his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Rhode Island (URI) in 1993.

Geoff is currently employed by BAE SYSTEMS Information & Electronic Warfare Systems, headquartered in Nashua, NH, where he is a Sr. Principal Systems Engineer in the Advanced Systems & Technology Division. Since joining BAE SYSTEMS (formerly Sanders), Geoff has been the Principal Investigator on several programs and, over the past ten years, has provided technical leadership in the development, design, and analysis of algorithms for underwater acoustic signal processing applications. He has made novel contributions in the fields of underwater acoustic communications, multistatics, and synthetic aperture sonar. He is also on a high-frequency sonar engineering team for which his specific emphasis has been on sparse array design.

As a graduate student at URI, Geoff participated in the Student Services Program with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center (NUWC) in Newport, RI. Between URI and NUWC, his work involved characterizing the behavior of passive synthetic aperture sonar techniques and analyzing the use of moving arrays for effective localization. Out of these efforts came the concept of the spatially-referenced towed array. During this time, Geoff also analyzed the use of linear signal spaces for simultaneous high-resolution estimation of range and Doppler shift. After graduating, he remained at URI for over six months to participate in post-graduate research on reverberation component modeling and estimation, and to teach a senior level course in digital computer design.

From 1984 to 1987, Geoff was employed in the Advanced Signal Processing Group at the RCA Missile & Surface Radar Division, Moorestown, NJ. He was the lead engineer for algorithm development and system integration of a ground-based demonstration test bed and a co-lead engineer on the AEGIS radar signal processor upgrade. Prior to joining RCA, Geoff completed his MS at the University of Pennsylvania where his thesis work concentrated on reducing the sidelobes of random antenna arrays.

Geoff is a member of the IEEE, the IEEE Oceanic Engineering (OES) and Signal Processing Societies, and the Acoustical Society of America (ASA). Since 1996, he has been an IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering associate editor for signal and array processing. He is also a member of the IEEE OES Technical Committee on Sonar Signal & Image Processing, the IEEE Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing Technical Committee, and a member of the Signal Processing in Acoustics Technical Committee of the ASA. He has co-authored one book chapter and has published numerous journal and conference papers.

Geoff and his wife Lisa have two wonderful children, Benzi and Mia. The kids occupy almost all of his “spare” time, but he does manage to serve on his Temple’s Board of Governors and to volunteer as a soccer coach. His hobbies include wine collecting (and drinking), skiing, and sailing.