Tracianne B. Neilsen

Tracianne B. Neilsen is currently an Associate Professor with the Department of Physics and Astronomy at Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA. She completed her Ph. D in physics at the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. Her postdoctoral research was completed at the Applied Research Laboratories, University of Texas at Austin, investigating iterative optimizations for source localization and seabed parameterization in shallow ocean environments. Working as a part-time Research Scientist in 2007, her focus shifted to optimizations for 566 high-frequency seabed parametrization using the Biot model. For more than a decade, she was a part-time Assistant Professor at Brigham Young University and did research on jet noise source characterization. In May 2018, she became a full-time Associate Professor and returned to underwater acoustics research. She has recently been exploring effective ways to apply deep learning in ocean acoustics.