Ellen S. Livingston (M'84-SM'97) received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in mathematics from Colorado State University, Ft. Collins, in 1967 and 1970, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree in mathematics from Washington University, St. Louis, MO, in 1982.
Since then, she has worked in the field of underwater acoustics for the Navy. She spent two years at the Naval Intelligence Support Center before moving to the Acoustics Division of the Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, DC. Her research there focused on array signal processing techniques (particularly matched-field processing), acoustic propagation modeling, and normal-mode analysis of the acoustic field. She spent a sabbatical year as a Visiting Scientist in the Department of Ocean Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, and as a Visiting Professor in the Mathematics Department, the New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark. Since 1995, she has worked for the Office of Naval Research, Arlington, VA, as a Program Officer in Ocean Acoustics. Her areas of emphasis are shallow-water acoustics and long-range propagation. She continues to conduct research in the area of surf-zone breaking wave noise.
Dr. Livingston is a member of the Acoustical Society of America, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the American Mathematical Society.