Purnima Ratilal
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Purnima Ratilal Makris (born 1971,[1] published as Purnima Ratilal) is an acoustical engineer and oceanographer whose research involves acoustic imaging at the scale of the continental shelf and its applications in tracking marine fish and marine mammal populations.[2][3][4][5] Educated in Singapore and the United States, she works in the United States as a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Northeastern University.[6]
Ratilal received a bachelor's degree in physics from the National University of Singapore in 1994, and worked as a research engineer at DSO National Laboratories in Singapore from 1994 to 1998.
Next, she went to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Department of Ocean Engineering for graduate study in acoustics,[6] with initial support from DSO National Laboratories,[1] and completed her Ph.D. there in 2002.[6] Her dissertation, Remote sensing of submerged objects and geomorphology in continental shelf waters with acoustic waveguide scattering, was supervised by Nicholas C. Makris.[1]
She continued at MIT as a postdoctoral researcher from 2002 to 2004 before taking a faculty position at Northeastern University.[6]