Wael Hajj Ali
- Phone: 617-621-7585
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Position:
Research / Technical Staff
Postdoctoral Research Fellow -
Education:
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2023 -
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Biography
During his graduate studies, Wael worked on projects spanning the fields of computational ocean acoustics and wave scattering using state-of-the-art numerical modeling, uncertainty quantification, and Bayesian inference techniques. Applications of his work included probabilistic acoustic predictions, acoustic inversion and tomography, and seafloor mapping. At MERL, Wael is interested in developing reduced-order and stochastic modeling methods for forward and inverse problems arising in computational sensing.
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Recent News & Events
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TALK [MERL Seminar Series 2024] Fadel Adib presents talk titled Decoding Hidden Worlds: Unprecedented Sensing and Connectivity for Climate, Robotics, & Smart Environments Date & Time: Wednesday, April 3, 2024; 12:00 PM
Speaker: Fadel Adib, MIT & Cartesian
MERL Host: Wael Hajj Ali
Research Areas: Computational Sensing, Dynamical Systems, Signal ProcessingAbstract
This talk will cover a new generation of technologies that can sense, connect, and perceive the physical world in unprecedented ways. These technologies can uncover hidden worlds around us, promising transformative impact on areas spanning climate change monitoring, ocean mapping, healthcare, food security, supply chain, and even extraterrestrial exploration.
The talk will cover four core technologies invented by Prof. Adib and his team. The first is an ocean internet-of-things (IoT) that uses battery-free sensors for climate change monitoring, marine life discovery, and seafood production (aquaculture). The second is a new perception technology that enables robots to sense and manipulate hidden objects. The third is a new augmented reality headset with ``X-ray vision”, which extends human perception beyond line-of-sight. The fourth is a wireless sensing technology that can “see through walls” and monitor people’s vital signs (including their breathing, heart rate, and emotions), enabling smart environments that sense humans requiring any contact with the human body.
The talk will touch on the journey of these technologies from their inception at MIT to international collaborations and startups that are translating them to real-world impact in areas spanning healthcare, climate change, and supply chain.
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Other Publications
- , "MSEAS-ParEq for Ocean-Acoustic Modeling around the Globe", OCEANS 2023 IEEE/MTS Gulf Coast, September 2023.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{ali_et_al_Oceans2023,
- author = {Ali, Wael Hajj and Charous, Aaron and Mirabito, Chris and Haley, Jr., Patrick J. and Lermusiaux, Pierre F. J.},
- title = {MSEAS-ParEq for Ocean-Acoustic Modeling around the Globe},
- booktitle = {OCEANS 2023 IEEE/MTS Gulf Coast},
- year = 2023,
- address = {Biloxi, MS},
- month = sep,
- organization = {IEEE},
- note = {In press}
- }
- , "Gaussian Beam Migration for Wide-Area Deep Ocean Floor Mapping", OCEANS 2023 IEEE/MTS Gulf Coast, September 2023.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{charous_et_al_Oceans2023,
- author = {Charous, Aaron and Ali, Wael Hajj and Ryu, Paul and Brown, David and Arsenault, Kevin and Cho, Byunggu and Rimpau, K. and March, Andrew and Lermusiaux, Pierre F. J.},
- title = {Gaussian Beam Migration for Wide-Area Deep Ocean Floor Mapping},
- booktitle = {OCEANS 2023 IEEE/MTS Gulf Coast},
- year = 2023,
- address = {Biloxi, MS},
- month = sep,
- organization = {IEEE},
- note = {In press}
- }
- , "A Wide-Area Deep Ocean Floor Mapping System: Design and Sea Tests", Geomatics, Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 290-311, March 2023.BibTeX
- @Article{ryu_et_al_G2023,
- author = {Ryu, Paul and Brown, David and Arsenault, Kevin and Cho, Byunggu and March, Andrew and Ali, Wael Hajj and Charous, Aaron and Lermusiaux, Pierre F. J.},
- title = {A Wide-Area Deep Ocean Floor Mapping System: Design and Sea Tests},
- journal = {Geomatics},
- year = 2023,
- volume = 3,
- number = 1,
- pages = {290--311},
- month = mar,
- note = {Special issue ``Advances in Ocean Mapping and Nautical Cartography''}
- }
- , "Dynamically Orthogonal Narrow-Angle Parabolic Equations for Stochastic Underwater Sound Propagation. Part I: Theory and Schemes", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2023.BibTeX
- @Article{ali_lermusiaux_JASA2023a,
- author = {Ali, Wael Hajj and Lermusiaux, Pierre F. J.},
- title = {Dynamically Orthogonal Narrow-Angle Parabolic Equations for Stochastic Underwater Sound Propagation. Part I: Theory and Schemes},
- journal = {Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
- year = 2023,
- note = {In press}
- }
- , "Dynamically Orthogonal Narrow-Angle Parabolic Equations for Stochastic Underwater Sound Propagation. Part II: Applications", Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2023.BibTeX
- @Article{ali_lermusiaux_JASA2023b,
- author = {Ali, Wael Hajj and Lermusiaux, Pierre F. J.},
- title = {Dynamically Orthogonal Narrow-Angle Parabolic Equations for Stochastic Underwater Sound Propagation. Part II: Applications},
- journal = {Journal of the Acoustical Society of America},
- year = 2023,
- note = {In press}
- }
- , "High-Performance Visualization for Ocean Modeling", OCEANS 2022 IEEE/MTS, October 2022, pp. 1-10.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{ali_et_al_Oceans2022,
- author = {Ali, Wael Hajj and Gao, Yorand and Foucart, Corbin and Doshi, Manan and Mirabito, Chris and Haley, Jr., Patrick J. and Lermusiaux, Pierre F. J.},
- title = {High-Performance Visualization for Ocean Modeling},
- booktitle = {OCEANS 2022 IEEE/MTS},
- year = 2022,
- pages = {1--10},
- address = {Hampton Roads, VA},
- month = oct,
- organization = {IEEE}
- }
- , "Stochastic Acoustic Ray Tracing with Dynamically Orthogonal Differential Equations", OCEANS 2022 IEEE/MTS, October 2022, pp. 1-10.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{humara_et_al_Oceans2022,
- author = {Humara, Michael J. and Ali, Wael Hajj and Charous, Aaron and Bhabra, Manmeet and Lermusiaux, Pierre F. J.},
- title = {Stochastic Acoustic Ray Tracing with Dynamically Orthogonal Differential Equations},
- booktitle = {OCEANS 2022 IEEE/MTS},
- year = 2022,
- pages = {1--10},
- address = {Hampton Roads, VA},
- month = oct,
- organization = {IEEE}
- }
- , "Incremental Low-Rank Dynamic Mode Decomposition Model for Efficient Dynamic Forecast Dissemination and Onboard Forecasting", OCEANS 2022 IEEE/MTS, October 2022, pp. 1-8.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{ryu_et_al_Oceans2022,
- author = {Ryu, Tony and Ali, Wael Hajj and Haley, Jr., Patrick J. and Mirabito, Chris and Charous, Aaron and Lermusiaux, Pierre F. J.},
- title = {Incremental Low-Rank Dynamic Mode Decomposition Model for Efficient Dynamic Forecast Dissemination and Onboard Forecasting},
- booktitle = {OCEANS 2022 IEEE/MTS},
- year = 2022,
- pages = {1--8},
- address = {Hampton Roads, VA},
- month = oct,
- organization = {IEEE}
- }
- , "Real-time Probabilistic Coupled Ocean Physics-Acoustics Forecasting and Data Assimilation for Underwater GPS", OCEANS 2020 IEEE/MTS, October 2020, pp. 1-9.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{lermusiaux_et_al_BBN_Oceans2020,
- author = {Lermusiaux, Pierre F. J. and Mirabito, Chris and Haley, Jr., Patrick J. and Ali, Wael Hajj and Gupta, Abhinav and Jana, Sudip and Dorfman, Eugene and Laferriere, Alison and Kofford, Aaron and Shepard, G. and Goldsmith, M. and Heaney, Kevin and Coelho, Emanuel and Boyle, J. and Murray, J. and Freitag, L. and Morozov, A.},
- title = {Real-time Probabilistic Coupled Ocean Physics-Acoustics Forecasting and Data Assimilation for Underwater GPS},
- booktitle = {OCEANS 2020 IEEE/MTS},
- year = 2020,
- pages = {1--9},
- month = oct,
- organization = {IEEE}
- }
- , "Multi-resolution Probabilistic Ocean Physics-Acoustic Modeling: Validation in the New Jersey Continental Shelf", OCEANS 2020 IEEE/MTS, October 2020, pp. 1-9.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{lermusiaux_et_al_NAVAIR_Oceans2020,
- author = {Lermusiaux, Pierre F. J. and Haley, Jr., Patrick J. and Mirabito, Chris and Ali, Wael H. and Bhabra, Manmeet and Abbot, Phil and Chiu, Ching-Sang and Emerson, Chris},
- title = {Multi-resolution Probabilistic Ocean Physics-Acoustic Modeling: Validation in the New Jersey Continental Shelf},
- booktitle = {OCEANS 2020 IEEE/MTS},
- year = 2020,
- pages = {1--9},
- month = oct,
- organization = {IEEE}
- }
- , "SeaVizKit: Interactive Maps for Ocean Visualization", OCEANS 2019 MTS/IEEE SEATTLE, October 2019, pp. 1-10.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{ali_et_al_Oceans2019a,
- author = {Ali, Wael Hajj and Mirhi, Mohamad H. and Gupta, Abhinav and Kulkarni, Chinmay S. and Foucart, Corbin and Doshi, Manan M. and Subramani, Deepak N. and Mirabito, Chris and Haley, Jr., Patrick J. and Lermusiaux, Pierre F. J.},
- title = {SeaVizKit: Interactive Maps for Ocean Visualization},
- booktitle = {OCEANS 2019 MTS/IEEE SEATTLE},
- year = 2019,
- pages = {1--10},
- address = {Seattle},
- month = oct,
- organization = {IEEE}
- }
- , "Stochastic Oceanographic-Acoustic Prediction and Bayesian Inversion for Wide Area Ocean Floor Mapping", OCEANS 2019 MTS/IEEE SEATTLE, October 2019, pp. 1-10.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{ali_et_al_Oceans2019b,
- author = {Ali, Wael Hajj and Bhabra, Manmeet S. and Lermusiaux, Pierre F. J. and March, Andrew and Edwards, Joseph R. and Rimpau, Katherine and Ryu, Paul},
- title = {Stochastic Oceanographic-Acoustic Prediction and Bayesian Inversion for Wide Area Ocean Floor Mapping},
- booktitle = {OCEANS 2019 MTS/IEEE SEATTLE},
- year = 2019,
- pages = {1--10},
- address = {Seattle},
- month = oct,
- organization = {IEEE}
- }
- , "Flow Maps and Coherent Sets for Characterizing Residence Times and Connectivity in Lagoons and Coral Reefs: The Case of the Red Sea", OCEANS 2019 MTS/IEEE SEATTLE, October 2019, pp. 1-8.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{doshi_et_al_Oceans2019,
- author = {Doshi, Manan M. and Kulkarni, Chinmay S. and Ali, Wael Hajj and Gupta, Abhinav and Lermusiaux, Pierre F. J. and Zhan, Peng and Hoteit, Ibrahim and Knio, Omar},
- title = {Flow Maps and Coherent Sets for Characterizing Residence Times and Connectivity in Lagoons and Coral Reefs: The Case of the Red Sea},
- booktitle = {OCEANS 2019 MTS/IEEE SEATTLE},
- year = 2019,
- pages = {1--8},
- address = {Seattle},
- month = oct,
- organization = {IEEE}
- }
- , "Real-Time Sediment Plume Modeling in the Southern California Bight", OCEANS Conference 2018, October 2018.BibTeX
- @Inproceedings{kulkarni_et_al_Oceans2018,
- author = {Kulkarni, C. S. and Haley, Jr., P. J. and Lermusiaux, P. F. J. and Dutt, A. and Gupta, A. and Mirabito, C. and Subramani, D. N. and Jana, S. and Ali, W. H. and Peacock, T. and Royo, C. M. and Rzeznik, A. and Supekar, R.},
- title = {Real-Time Sediment Plume Modeling in the Southern California Bight},
- booktitle = {OCEANS Conference 2018},
- year = 2018,
- address = {Charleston, SC},
- month = oct,
- organization = {IEEE}
- }
- , "A Future for Intelligent Autonomous Ocean Observing Systems", Journal of Marine Research, Vol. 75, No. 6, pp. 765-813, November 2017.BibTeX
- @Article{lermusiaux_et_al_TheSea2017,
- author = {Lermusiaux, P. F. J. and Subramani, D. N. and Lin, J. and Kulkarni, C. S. and Gupta, A. and Dutt, A. and Lolla, T. and Haley, Jr., P. J. and Ali, W. H. and Mirabito, C. and Jana, S.},
- title = {A Future for Intelligent Autonomous Ocean Observing Systems},
- journal = {Journal of Marine Research},
- year = 2017,
- volume = 75,
- number = 6,
- pages = {765--813},
- month = nov,
- note = {The Sea. Volume 17, The Science of Ocean Prediction, Part 2.}
- }
- , "Optimal Planning and Sampling Predictions for Autonomous and Lagrangian Platforms and Sensors in the Northern Arabian Sea", Oceanography, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 172-185, June 2017.BibTeX
- @Article{lermusiaux_et_al_Oceanog2017,
- author = {Lermusiaux, P. F. J. and Haley, Jr., P. J. and Jana, S. and Gupta, A. and Kulkarni, C. S. and Mirabito, C. and Ali, W. H. and Subramani, D. N. and Dutt, A. and Lin, J. and Shcherbina, A. and Lee, C. and Gangopadhyay, A.},
- title = {Optimal Planning and Sampling Predictions for Autonomous and Lagrangian Platforms and Sensors in the Northern Arabian Sea},
- journal = {Oceanography},
- year = 2017,
- volume = 30,
- number = 2,
- pages = {172--185},
- month = jun,
- note = {Special issue on Autonomous and Lagrangian Platforms and Sensors ({ALPS})}
- }
- , "MSEAS-ParEq for Ocean-Acoustic Modeling around the Globe", OCEANS 2023 IEEE/MTS Gulf Coast, September 2023.