Roee Diamant

Roee Diamant received his PhD from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of British Columbia, in 2013, and his B.Sc. and the M.Sc. degrees from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 2002 and 2007, respectively. From 2001 to 2009, he worked in Rafael Advanced Defense Systems, Israel, as a project manager and systems engineer, where he developed a commercial underwater modem with network capabilities. In 2015 and 2016, he was a visiting Prof. at the University of Padova, Italy. In 2009, he received the Israel Excellent Worker First Place Award from the Israeli Presidential Institute. In 2010, he received the NSERC Vanier Canada Graduate Scholarship. Prof. Diamant has received three Best Paper awards and serves as an associate editor for the IEEE Journal of Ocean Engineering. He is the coordinator of the EU H2020 project SYMBIOSIS (BG-14 track) and leads the underwater Acoustic and Navigation Laboratory (ANL) as an Associate Prof. at the Dept. of Marine Technologies, University of Haifa. His research interests include underwater acoustic communication, underwater localization and navigation, object detection and classification, and sonar signal processing. He is currently serving as ERA Chair at the Laboratory for Underwater Systems and Technologies where he leads a branch of his Marine Acoustics Lab within the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the University of Zagreb in Croatia.