Florian Meyer is an Associate Professor at the University of California, San Diego, holding a joint appointment between the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in Applied Ocean Sciences and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering within the Jacobs School of Engineering. He earned his Dipl.-Ing. (M.Sc.) and Ph.D. degrees, both with highest honors, in electrical engineering from TU Wien in Vienna, Austria, in 2011 and 2015, respectively. Prior to joining UC San Diego in January 2020, Meyer served as a Postdoctoral Fellow and Associate at the Laboratory for Information and Decision Systems at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 2017 to 2019. Before that, he was a Research Scientist at the NATO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation in La Spezia, Italy, from 2016 to 2017. He was promoted to Associate Professor with tenure in February 2025.

Meyer's research centers on interdisciplinary advancements at the intersection of statistical signal processing, underwater acoustics, and marine robotics. He develops innovative methodologies for high-dimensional nonlinear estimation, parameter estimation, machine learning, graphical models, multiobject tracking, network localization, and navigation. His work enables autonomous data collection systems at sea, enhances oceanographic research in areas such as ocean acoustics and marine mammal biology, and extends to applications in autonomous driving, wireless communication, and medical imaging. Key publications include 'Scalable Multiobject Tracking Using Particle Belief Propagation' (Proceedings of the IEEE, 2018), 'Efficient Multisensor Localization and Tracking: A Mini Review' (IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, 2018), 'Graph-based Maritime Situational Awareness' (2021), 'Neural Enhanced Belief Propagation for Multiobject Tracking' (2024), 'Automating Multi-Target Tracking of Singing Humpback Whales Using Vector Sensors' (2023), and 'Whale Tracking in 3-D from Echolocation Clicks' (2023). Meyer has received prestigious awards, including the 2021 ISIF Young Investigator Award, 2022 NSF CAREER Award, 2022 DARPA Young Faculty Award, and 2023 ONR Young Investigator Award. Additional honors encompass the 2019 IET Radar, Sonar & Navigation Premium Award, 2018 R&D 100 Award, and 2020 NATO STO Scientific Achievement Team Award. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, having previously held editorial roles for IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems (2021-2023) and the ISIF Journal of Advances in Information Fusion. Meyer has delivered keynotes, such as at IEEE Aerospace 2020, co-chaired workshops at IEEE conferences, and secured funding from ONR, NSF, and DARPA for projects on autonomous sensing and geoacoustic inversion.

Professional Email: flmeyer@ucsd.edu