Thomas Riedl

Thomas Riedl, Chief Technology Officer at OceanComm

Thomas Riedl is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of OceanComm, a startup company that provides high-speed wireless underwater communication using ultrasound technology.1235 He has extensive experience in the field of wireless communication, particularly in underwater applications.13

Education and Work Experience

• Earned a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 201413
• Previously worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2014 to 2016, conducting research in acoustic wave propagation, wireless communications, signal processing, and machine learning3
• Served as a Research Assistant at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign from 2008 to 2014, focusing on acoustic wave propagation, wireless communications, signal processing, and machine learning3
• Worked as a Research Assistant at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne) from 2009 to 2012, researching channel coding and investigating the limits of channel coding under practical constraints3
• Gained practical experience as a Communications Engineering Intern at Schlumberger in 2011, where he developed patent-pending algorithms for downhole mud-pulse acoustic communications3

Contributions at OceanComm

• Developed patent-pending algorithms for robust wireless communication underwater at data rates between 1Mbps and 1Gbps, which is over 1,000 times faster than the state-of-the-art3
• Led the OceanComm team in demonstrating Wi-Fi-like data rates and high-quality video streaming from their M1-H150 high-frequency acoustic modem deployed 1,000 feet underwater off the coast of San Diego in 20224
• The M1-H150 modem is 10 to 100 times faster than competing systems and delivers data transfer rates in excess of 1 Mbps at 100 meters4

Thomas Riedl's expertise and contributions have been instrumental in advancing OceanComm's mission to provide high-speed wireless underwater communication capabilities comparable to Wi-Fi on land.