PhD thesis

The following doctoral theses have been presented and successfully defended in subjects related to Ocean Engineering and in whose realization members of the Institute have been involved:

Ritu Raj Lamsal
IoT-Based Agricultural Innovations: Cost-Effective Platforms for Smallholder Farmers in Nepal and Lower- and Middle- Income Countries. 
Supervisors: Pablo Otero and Francisco Coslado Aristizábal. University of Malaga, December 2, 2024.

Atif Naseer
Nephrops norvegicus burrows detection and classification from underwater videos using Deep Learning techniques.
Supervisors: Enrique Nava and Yolanda Vila Gordillo, researcher from Centro Oceanográfico de Cádiz (Spain) from Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO-CO Cádiz, Spain). University of Malaga, April 4, 2024.

Muhammad Imran Saleem
Machine Learning for Bidirectional Translation between Different Sign and Oral Languages. 
Supervisor: Miguel-Ángel Luque-Nieto. University of Malaga, September 27, 2023.

Jitander Kumar
Energy-Efficient Routing Protocols for Ad Hoc Underwater Sensor Networks.
Supervisors: Pablo Otero and Miguel Ángel Luque Nieto. University of Malaga, May 9, 2023.

Mohsin Murad
Assessment and Performance Improvement of Multicarrier Modulation for Underwater Acoustic Communications.
Supervisor: Pablo Otero. University of Malaga, April 22, 2022.

Nabil Shaukat.
Multi-Sensor Data Fusion for Underwater Positioning.
Supervisor: Pablo Otero. University of Malaga, March 22, 2022.

Atif Ahmed Siddiqui 
An Automated Process for Designing Test Sites for Electronic Products Based on Figure of Merit and Machine Learning.
Supervisor: Pablo Otero. University of Malaga, October 14, 2021.

Muhammad Yousuf Irfan Zia
Cost-Effective and Energy-Efficient Techniques for Underwater Acoustic Communication Modems.
Supervisors: Pablo Otero and Miguel Ángel Luque Nieto. University of Malaga, February 11, 2021.

Waheeduddin Hyder
Self-organizing Fast Routing Protocols for Underwater Acoustic Communications Networks.
Supervisors: Pablo Otero and Miguel Ángel Luque Nieto. University of Malaga, May 11, 2020.

Mehdi Mokhtarishirazabad
Multi-parameter fracture mechanics analysis of fatigue crack propagation by digital image correlation. 
Supervisor: Pablo López Crespo. University of Malaga. University of Malaga, June 7, 2019.

Seema Ansari
Analysis of MAC Strategies for Underwater Acoustic Networks.
Supervisors: Javier Poncela and Pablo Otero. University of Malaga, September 28, 2018.

Miguel Ángel Luque Nieto
Planificaciones TDMA óptimas en redes submarinas de comunicación.
Supervisors: Pablo Otero and Javier Poncela. University of Malaga, June 27, 2018.

José Miguel Moreno Roldán
Video Quality Assessment in Underwater Acoustic Networks.
Supervisors: Javier Poncela and Pablo Otero. University of Malaga, May 24, 2018.