LAUSR

The Hunt Postdoctoral Research Fellowship gave me the freedom and flexibility to take a detour to pursue research topics that are not on a linear path from my Ph.D. training. My graduate study in the MIT-WHOI Joint Program in Oceanography focused on modeling and measuring the acoustic scattering of marine organisms for improving sonar, or echosounder, performance. Knowing the current limitation of human-made sonar, I have always been curious about how echolocating bats and dolphins can perform acoustic-guided search, identification and tracking of prey so efficiently. As a Hunt fellow in Dr. Cynthia Moss’ lab in Johns Hopkins University, I learned first-hand the sophisticated echolocation and flight behavior of bats, which helped me develop insights for computational modeling. Using the research funds provided by the Hunt fellowship, I was fortunate to work with Dr. Whitlow Au, who first introduced me to the field of acoustics before graduate school, again to investigate the dolphins’ adaptive biosonar be...