Benjamin R. Dzikowicz

Benjamin R. Dzikowicz (Member, IEEE) was born in Bridgeport, Connecticut, in 1968. He received the B.S. degree in chemistry from the University of Connecticut, Mansfield, CT, USA, in 1990, and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in physics from Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA, in 2003. While earning his Ph.D. under Dr. Philip Marston, he studied acoustic scattering from targets residing on or near caustic surfaces. After graduation, he worked for seven years with the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Panama City, FL, USA studying such diverse topics as target scattering, shear waves in explosive materials, and single channel time reversal. In 2009, he came to the US Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC, USA where he has been working on acoustic navigation and perception, thermo-acoustic sources, and synthetic aperture sonar techniques. Dr. Dzikowicz is a Member of The Acoustical Society of America.