Arthur Bernard Baggeroer

Arthur Bernard Baggeroer (born June 9, 1942) is an American electrical engineer and emeritus ford professor of engineering in the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Baggeroer is known for his research advancements in signal processing and sonar, and is recognized as an international authority on underwater acoustics.

Education and employment Baggeroer received his B.S.E.E from Purdue University (1963) and both his S.M. (1965) and Sc.D. (1968) in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His doctoral thesis State variables, the Fredholm theory and optimal communications was advised by Harry L. Van Trees. He joined the faculty at MIT in 1968, where he taught Signal Processing: Continuous and Discrete; Sonar, Radar, & Seismic Signal Processing; Array Processing; and Stochastic Processes, Detection, and Estimation. He was an advisor to the U.S. Navy on the Ocean Studies Board and Naval Studies Board, as well as the chief scientist on 15 oceanography cruises. He has been affiliated with MIT Lincoln Laboratory and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution for many years, including as the director of the MIT-Woods Hole Joint Program in Oceanography and Oceanographic Engineering from 1983-1988. (1995). He is an IEEE fellow Rayleigh-Helmholtz Medal (2003), Purdue Outstanding Electrical and Computer Engineering award (2006),