Kevin Becker is an organic geochemist working with molecular signatures of microbial communities in the ocean. He has a PhD from the University of Bremen in Germany and is currently a postdoc at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. He specializes in studying how and why organisms leave their particular chemical signals in the marine environment … Continued
Fernanda recently completed her PhD at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she specialized in bio-optical coastal oceanography and ocean color remote sensing. Fernanda is currently a Postdoctoral Researcher working with Angel White at Oregon State University. Fernanda is interested in understanding the inter-relationships between optical, biogeochemical and physical properties of the North Pacific … Continued
Corina Barbalata is currently a Research Fellow in the Deep Robot Optical Perception (DROP) Lab in the Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering Department at University of Michigan. In 2017 she received a PhD in Electrical Engineering from Heriot-Watt University, UK. She received in 2013 a double M.S degree in Computer Vision and Robotics from University … Continued
Marlyse is a first-year PhD student in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT. She received her B.S. in Aeronautics and Astronautics from MIT in 2017. Her current research in the Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems Group focuses on multi-vehicle online planning, incorporating complex dynamics and constraints. She is also interested in risk-aware … Continued
George is a mechanical engineer working with the underwater group at the ACFR, and has a background in fluid dynamics and mechanical design; with experience in wind tunnel experiments, CFD simulations and system design. As part of the underwater group at ACFR is responsible for AUV maintenance and operations, as well as, designing new components … Continued
Nick Pascucci is a graduate student in MIT’s Model Based Embedded Robotic Systems (MERS) lab. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in computer science from Colorado College, and worked at Google’s Cambridge office as a software engineer for five years before coming to MIT. Nick’s research focuses on architectures for robust autonomous systems, including deep sea … Continued
Zach is currently an undergraduate student at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) majoring in Aerospace Engineering and minoring in Computer Science. Zach is particularly interested in the development of autonomous vehicles, especially autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). In the past, Zach has worked with the Slocum Glider as a summer student fellow at the Woods Hole … Continued
Yuening is a second-year graduate student from the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence lab at MIT. She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Michigan – Ann Arbor. She works in the Model-based Embedded and Robotic Systems group where she focuses on distributed decision making under multi-agent context. She is interested … Continued
Education: National Technical University of Ukraine, Kiev Dipl.-Engineer Electronics, Acoustics and Ultrasonics, Graduated with honors Professional Experience: 2000 – present EvoLogics GmbH, Berlin, Germany Senior R&D Engineer Development and prototyping of hydro acoustic-based digital communication systems; Development and implementation of data acquisition systems and signal processing/visualizations software for sea-trials; Design, prototyping and field testing of … Continued
Nikhil is a second year PhD student in the EECS department at MIT, working in the MERS group. He graduated from Stanford University with a BS in Symbolic Systems and MS in Computer Science in 2014. His current research focuses on multi-agent coordination during execution in contexts with limited or uncertain communication.
