Abigail Keller

Abby Keller is a research assistant in Erik Cordes’ lab at Temple University, and she will be studying deep-sea coral and other members of the macro-faunal community at the Cascadia margin to understand how the methane seep is supporting life at various trophic levels. She graduated from Haverford College in 2017, and she has spent … Continued

Miquel Massot Campos

Originally from Palma de Mallorca, Miquel Massot is a PhD student in Systems, Robotics and Vision research group in the University of the Balearic Islands. His PhD focuses in real time three-dimensional reconstruction using laser and imaging sensors. He has worked with ROVs and AUVs both using custom or ROS middlewares and has also experience … Continued

Tetsu Koike

Koike Tetsu is a technician of Kaiyo Engineering Co., Ltd. and a cooperative researcher of the Institute of Industrial Science, University of Tokyo (IIS-UT). His work includes undersea survey using multi beam sonar, programming data analysis, machine maintenance, and so on. He frequently boards ships on fishery survey, ocean bottom topography survey, seabed resource survey … Continued

Kiminori Shitashima

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

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

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

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

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

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

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