Mark Goldwater
Graduate Research Assistant
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolMark Goldwater is a PhD candidate at the MIT/WHOI Joint Program specializing in applying machine learning, signal processing, and communication theory to scale ocean acoustic monitoring. With eight years of hands-on experience across WHOI, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, and Olin College, he builds and deploys ML-backed detection pipelines—ranging from CNNs for whale call spectrograms to SDR experiments for drone detection. His work bridges theory and field systems, combining firmware/SDR, C/C++ control code, and Python/TensorFlow models to turn large passive acoustic datasets into actionable environmental insights. Co-advised by experts in ocean acoustics, he contributes to interdisciplinary labs (OASL, MARS) and has published rapid findings while presenting at professional acoustics meetings. Notably, he has practical experience integrating communications hardware and signal-processing algorithms to make research reproducible and operational in noisy, real-world maritime environments.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Newton North High SchoolDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Ocean Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science & Ocean Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
English, Spanish
Github Skills (20)
sequence-modeling10
sequence8
temporal8
edwin7
modeling7
ros6
deep-learning5
robotics5
gazebosim4
simulation3
machine-learning2
python2
embedded-software1
c-language1
stem1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MarkG98/DSA-18
Jan 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:36 pushes in 3 months
data-structuresalgorithms-and-data-structuresolin
MarkG98/QEABoatModule
Feb 2018 - Nov 2019
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 1 year 8 months
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