Kiminori Shitashima is a professor of School of Marine Resources and Environment at Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology in Japan from 2016. His background is marine geochemistry, and he has been developing in-situ chemical sensors (pH/pCO2/ORP sensor, gamma ray sensor, trace metal sensor, etc) and applying them for various oceanographic researches. Kiminori gained his Ph.D. degree … Continued
Jonghyun Ahn is an Assistant Professor of Human Intelligence Systems at Kyushu Institute of Technology in Japan. His research field is underwater imaging system, which contains image enhancement, analysis and acoustic transmission for images. Jonghyun received his Ph.D in Underwater Robotics at Kyushu Institute of Technology in 2017. Research keywords: Computer vision, Acoustic communication, Robotics
Adrian Bodenmann is a senior research assistant at the University of Southampton. His research interests are focussed on visual seafloor mapping. He has co-developed four underwater mapping devices using laser scanning for photographic survey of the bottom of the ocean and developed an algorithm for converting the collected data into three dimensional digital reconstructions. He … Continued
Kazunori Nagano is an Employee of Naval Ship Engineering Dept. Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and project researcher at University of Tokyo. His main work at the university is maintenance and operation of AUV which named AE2000f / AE2000a / Boss-A. Recentry hes work is development the AUV for Team Kuroshio. Nagano graduated with a … Continued
Jenny Walker is a first year PhD student specialising in machine learning. She completed her BSc in Computer Science at the University of Southampton with First Honours in 2017. Her PhD focuses on using her knowledge of machine learning in the field of marine robotics, to lessen the bottleneck between data collection and scientific outputs. … Continued
Yuya Nishida is an assistant professor at Kyushu Institute of Technology in the JAPAN. He has working on development of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) and underwater instruments for survey the marine resources. His research interests focus on the automation of marine survey and inspection conducted by humans. In this year, His vehicle which has manipulator … Continued
Tomoko Takahashi is a Project Research Associate at Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo, specializing in the use of laser spectroscopy in ocean chemical analysis. She graduated with a B. A. in Engineering at the University of Tokyo where she went on to receive her M. A. and PhD in Environmental Studies. Having completed … Continued
Jin Wei Lim is a PhD student under the Leverhulme Trust Doctoral Scholarship, based at the Southampton Marine and Maritime Institute at the University of Southampton, UK. He has a strong interest in autonomous unmanned systems, and is currently developing instruments and methods to generate high-resolution, georeferenced maps of geometrically complex deep-seafloor energy infrastructures, such … Continued
Blair Thornton is an Associate Professor of Oceanic Engineering at the University of Southampton in the UK with an adjunct position at the University of Tokyo in Japan. He holds an EPSRC Innovation Fellowship and leads the Ocean Perception Laboratory. His research interests focus on developing scalable methods for visual and in situ chemical seafloor … Continued
Lori Hepner is an artist working between the fields of photography, performance, and light art. She also curates exploratory journeys for other artists in an exploratory residency program, River Route. In her work, she performs digitized, luminous traces of landscapes that are under threat due to climate by gesturally re-drawing landscapes with muscle memories from … Continued
