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Ph.D. in Engineering and Applied Science, 1997 
University of New Orleans

M.S. in Applied Physics, 1996 
University of New Orleans

M.S. in Radiophysics, 1990
Gorky State University, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

• Marine ecosystem studies using acoustic methods
• Marine mammal acoustics
• Ocean noise and climate change
• Ocean natural resources mapping using acoustics
• Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence algorithms for acoustic data mining
• Computational models for sound propagation in inhomogeneous waveguides (with emphasis on applications to ocean acoustics)
• Theoretical methods of scattering from objects in waveguides
• Hydrophysical inverse problems (source imaging, ocean acoustic tomography)
• Big data intelligence
• Medical Acoustics
• Physics Education Research

• Alexander I. Khil’ko, Jerald W. Caruthers, Natalia A. Sidorovskaia, “Ocean Acoustic Tomography. A review with Emphasis on the Russian Approach,” Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Applied Physics, Nizhny Novgorod, 1998
• M.F. Werby and N.A. Sidorovskaia, “Modern developments in the theory and application of classical scattering,” in book: “ACOUSTIC INTERACTIONS WITH SUBMERGED ELASTIC STRUCTURES. Part III: Acoustic Propagation and Scattering, Wavelets and Time Frequency Analysis,” edited by Ardéshir Guran, Adrianus De Hoop, Dieter Guicking, and Francesco Mainardi, World Scientific Publishing, New Jersey, August 2001, pp.256-358 (ISBN: 981-02-2950-X)
• Yu.K. Postoenko, N.A. Sidorovskaya, et al., “The reconstruction of structure of moving acoustical sources with complex spectrum,” In book: "Formation of acoustical waves in oceanic waveguides. Inhomogeneity reconstruction", ed. Zverev V.A., Institute of Applied Physics of Russian Academy of Sciences, Nizhny Novgorod, 35 pp., 1993 (in Russian, translated in English).
• Li, K., Sidorovskaia, N.A., Guilment, T., Tang, T., Tiemann, C.O. (2021). Decadal Assessment of Sperm Whale Site-Specific Abundance Trends in the Northern Gulf of Mexico Using Passive Acoustic Data, J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2021, 9, 454, https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse9050454
• Guilment, T., Sidorovskaia, N., and Li, K. (2020). Modelling the Acoustic Repertoire of Cuvier's Beaked Whale Clicks, The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 147, 3605-3612, https://doi.org/10.1121/10.0001266
• Li, K., Sidorovskaia, N., and Tiemann, C. (2020). Model-based unsupervised clustering for distinguishing Cuvier's and Gervais' beaked whales in acoustic data. Ecological Informatics, vol. 58, 19p. (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2020.101094)
• Ackleh, A.S.; Chiquet, R.A.; Ma, B.; Tang, T.; Caswell, H.; Veprauskas, A.; Sidorovskaia, N. (2017). Analysis of lethal and sublethal impacts of environmental disasters on sperm whales using stochastic modeling. Ecotoxicology, 1-11. doi:10.1007/s10646-017-1813-4
• Ackleh, A., Ioup, G.E., Ioup, J.W., Ma, B., Newcomb, J., Pal, N., Sidorovskaia, N., and Tiemann, C. (2012). “Assessing the Deepwater Horizon oil spill impact on marine mammal population through acoustics: endangered sperm whales,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 131(3), 2306-14. Read the PDF version.
• Tiemann, Chris O., Jaffe, Jules S. , Roberts, Paul L. D. , Sidorovskaia, Natalia A., Ioup, George E. , Ioup, Juliette W. , Ekimov, Alexander , Lehman, Sean K. (2011). “Signal and image processing techniques as applied to animal bioacoustics problems,” Acoustics Today 7 (3), pp. 35-43. Read the PDF version.
• Tashmukhambetov, A.M., Ioup, G.E., Ioup, J.W., Sidorovskaia, N.A., Newcomb, J.J. (2008). “3-Dimensional seismic array calibration study: experiment and modeling,” J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 123(6), 4094-4108. Read the PDF version.
• Sidorovskaia, N. (2004). “Systematic studies of pulse propagation in ducted oceanic waveguides in normal mode representation,”The European Physical Journal, Applied Physics 25 (2), 113-131. Read the PDF version.

• American Council on Education (ACE) Fellow (Host Institution: University of Pittsburgh, Provost (Ann E. Cudd) office; Chancellor Patrick D. Gallagher), 2020-2022
• Certificate of Achievement in Sponsored Research Award, University of Louisiana at ɫ��AV, 2019
• Research Excellence Award, University of Louisiana at ɫ��AV, 2017
• Outstanding Achievement in Research and Sponsored Activities Award, University of Louisiana at ɫ��AV, 2016
• Coca-Cola/Board of Regents Endowed Professorship in Physics, University of Louisiana at ɫ��AV, 2014-2026
• Fellow, Acoustical Society of America, 2013
• Bill Good Award from Physics faculty, in recognition of outstanding research in Physics, University of New Orleans, 1996 & 1997
• Distinguished Graduate Research Award at the Doctoral Level, University of New Orleans, 1996
• "Who’s Who in the World”, 14th Edition", 1997
• Grant of the International Soros Foundation, 1994
• State University Fellowship, 1985-1990
• Gold Medal on the graduation from high school (Valedictorian), 1985