被国家人事部授予“有突出贡献中青年专家”称号的厦门大学工学院院长、博士生导师许克平教授，在电子技术方面有很高的造诣。他除了完成行政管理和教学任务外，主要从事多媒体信息（语言、图像等）水声通信研究。他参与领导和研究的具有国际先进水平的“浅海域水下全方位语言 Professor Xu Keping, dean and PhD supervisor of Xiamen University who is awarded the title of “Young and Middle-Aged Experts with Outstanding Contributions” by the Ministry of Personnel, has high attainments in electronic technology. In addition to completing his administration and teaching tasks, he is mainly engaged in the research of underwater communications in multimedia information (languages, images, etc.). He is involved in leading and researching the world’s most advanced “shallow sea underwater omni-directional language.”