Robert S. Lynch Biography

Robert S. Lynch was born in Albany, NY, on May 18, 1960. In 1980 and 1982, respectively, he received the A.A. and A.S. degrees from Hudson Valley Community College, Troy, NY. In 1984 and 1991, respectively, he received B.S. and M.S. degrees, both in electrical engineering, from Union College, Schenectady, NY. In 1999, he received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Connecticut, Storrs. Since 1991, he has been with the Naval Undersea Warfare Center, Newport, RI, where he is involved in the research and development of sonar systems. His research interests are in the areas of pattern recognition and classification, detection, data fusion, tracking, and signal processing. Dr. Lynch is an adjunct lecturer in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT. He is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), and is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part B Cybernetics. Dr. Lynch is Administrative Editor of the Journal of Advances in Information Fusion, and is a member of the International Society of Information Fusion (ISIF). He also is an associate member of the IEEE Sensor, Array, and Multichannel (SAM) Processing Committee.