Researcher on boat preparing hydrophone for acoustic surveys of marine mammals in the Antartic
Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute

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Professor Jonathon Hare BEng (Hons), PhD, FHEA, MIET

Professor

Research interests

  • My main research interests lie in the area of representation learning;
  • The long-term goal of my research is to innovate techniques that can allow machines to learn from and understand the information conveyed by data and use that information to fulfil the information needs of humans.  

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Professor Jordan Cheer BMus (Tonmeister), MSc, PhD, CEng, MIMechE, FHEA

Professor

Research interests

  • Active Noise Control
  • Active Vibration Control
  • Smart Structures for Noise and Vibration Control

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Professor Jose Olmo

Professor of Financial Economics

Research interests

  • Financial econometrics
  • Time series analysis
  • Financial economics

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Professor Juerg Matter

Professor of Geoengineering&Carbon Manag
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Professor Julian Leyland

Professor

Research interests

  • Fluvial and Intertidal Geomorphology
  • Remote Environmental Sensing
  • UAVs, USVs and Autonomy in Geoscience

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Professor Julian Wharton

Professor
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Professor Justin Dix

Professor in Marine Geology & Geophysics

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Dr Ka-Kin Cheuk

Lecturer in Anthropology

Research interests

  • Transnationalism
  • Migration
  • Inter-Asian connections

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Dr Kai Wen PhD

Research Fellow in Offshore Geotechnics

Research interests

  • Offshore seabed-structure interaction
  • Smart seabed characteristion
  • Computational geomechanics (i.e. FEM, PFEM)
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