Thor Storm Husøy received his M.Sc. degree in telecommunication and acoustics in 1996 from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) with a thesis on hydroacoustic noise from commercial fishing vessels.

The following year he served as a research assistant at the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment (FFI) modelling towed sonar arrays and working on seismic exploration cruises, whereafter he for three years worked as a consultant on offshore noise&vibration control with Statkraft Grøner.

Since 2001, he has been with Kongsberg at Strandpromenaden in various R&D roles within embedded programming, signal processing, system design, project- and people management. All the time focusing on underwater acoustic communication and localization products, also participating in research projects within EDA, FP7 and H2020.

Coming from a position as group manager signal processing, he currently is principal engineer at the positioning and communication product management team in Kongsberg Discovery.