Lachlan is a PhD student at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics at the University of Sydney, Australia. His research topic concerns algorithms enabling sharing of information between robots to better determine their position in environments where communication is limited. Previously he has been involved in other underwater robotics expeditions to the Mediterranean Sea, Lake … Continued
Eric Timmons is currently a Ph.D. student in the MIT/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering. He is researching the application of risk-bounded programming to long-lived fleets of autonomous underwater vehicles. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT. He conducted his Masters research on fast, … Continued
Oleksiy Kebkal is lead software engineer at EvoLogics GmbH, a German a high-tech enterprise, specializing in underwater acoustic communication, acoustic positioning equipment and innovative solutions for robotics. Oleksiy received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Sciences from the National Technical University of Ukraine (Kiev, Ukraine) in 2001 and is currently working towards his PhD degree. He … Continued
Chris Roman is an Associate Professor of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island Graduate School of Oceanography. He has been working with marine robotics and participating in oceanographic research for the past 15 years. He runs a laboratory that develops new platforms and methods to map the sea floor and make measurements in the … Continued
Prof. Stefan B. Williams is the Professor of Marine Robotics at the University of Sydney’s Australian Centre for Field Robotics and the School of Aerospace, Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering. He holds an ARC Future Fellowship and leads the ACFR’s Marine Robotics group. Prof. Williams is also the head of Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System Autonomous … Continued
Brian Williams is a Professor at MIT. He received his S.B., S.M and Ph.D. from MIT in Computer Science and Electrical Engineering in 1989. He pioneered research in multiple fault, model-based diagnosis in the 80′s through the GDE and Sherlock systems at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center, and model-based autonomy in the 90′s at … Continued
Christian Lees is an Electrical Engineer working with the Underwater group of the Australian Centre for Field Robotics (ACFR). He has 15 years experience in marine electronics and underwater systems including Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUV). He has participated in both ecological surveys around Australia, archaeological surveys in Greece and Sicily as well as hydrothermal vent … Continued
Angelos Mallios is a visiting investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), USA, and co-founder of Ploatech, a marine technology consulting company. His passion for the ocean and technology motivated him to return to academics after 10 years in the field, earning his Masters (2009) and PhD (2014) degrees on computer vision and robotics at Universitat … Continued
Dr Ariell Friedman is an engineer with a background in academia. He is the founder of Greybits Engineering, a software engineering and data science consultancy based in Sydney, Australia. Prior to that, he worked as a post-doctoral research engineer at the Australian Centre for Field Robotics and as a software engineer at a renewable hydro-energy … Continued
George Pleskach is chief electronics engineer at EvoLogics GmbH, a German a high-tech enterprise, specializing in underwater acoustic communication, acoustic positioning equipment and innovative solutions for robotics. George graduated from National Technical University of Ukraine in 1985, and after a career in underwater acoustics, relocated to Berlin to become one of the first members of … Continued
