Dr Ron Lewis

Dr Ron Lewis

Dr Lewis is a post-doctoral fellow cross appointed with the Autonomous Ocean Systems Lab and the Ocean Frontier Institute at Memorial University of Newfoundland working on autonomous vehicle development under Ice Ocean Sentinel System Project and autonomous system operations under the Development of Autonomous Marine Observation System (DAMOS) project. Dr Lewis received the BScH degree in mathematics and statistics from Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, in 1998; and the MSc in mathematics, M Eng electrical and computer engineering and PhD in electrical engineering from Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, Canada in 2003, 2007, and 2016 respectively; and the PhD in maritime engineering from Australian Maritime College-University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia in 2016. He was a Research Lab Coordinator from 2007 to 2011 working with the Marine Environmental Research Lab for Intelligent Vehicles and from 2011 to 2016, he was the Project Manager of the Responsive AUV Localization and Mapping Project at Memorial University. Career highlights include AUV fieldwork in remote locations such as the Canadian High Arctic, Australian Antarctic Territory and coastal Newfoundland. After managing Memorial’s large Explorer AUV program with MERLIN for approximately a decade, he was appointed as an Instructor and Chair of the Underwater Vehicle Program at the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University. He has recently joined the AOSL to pursue his research interests in autonomous underwater vehicles, underwater acoustics and acoustic localization. Dr Lewis is a member of the Society for Underwater Technology and Secretary for the SUT Panel on Underwater Robotics, and member of the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society as well.