Brian Tracey received the B.A. degree in physics from Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, MI, USA and the Ph.D. degree in oceanographic engineering (focusing on acoustics) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA/Woods Hole Joint Program. He is currently a Professor of the Practice in Electrical and Computer Engineering with Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA, where he carries out research on imaging methods, inverse problems, and biomedical signal processing.