Contact Information
Dr. Michael Benjamin, mikerb at mit.edu (MechE/LAMSS), (papers), LinkedIn PhD 2002 Brown Univ, 2002-2005 Postdoc MIT 617-324-7507 (Pavilion Land Line) | |
Prof. Michael Triantafyllou, mistetri at mit.edu Director, MIT Sea Grant College Program (Sea Grant) , (papers) | |
Prof. Henrik Schmidt, henrik at mit.edu Director, Laboratory for Autonomous Marine Sensing Systems (LAMSS), (papers) | |
Prof. John Leonard, jleonard at mit.edu Director, Marine Robotics Group (MRG), (papers), LinkedIn |
Research Scientists
Dr. Supun Randeni, Supun at mit.edu (Sea Grant), (papers), LinkedIn PhD 2018, Australian Maritime College, University of Tasmania Projects: Morpheus, Perseus, Sea Train,Sea Beaver | |
Mike DeFilippo, mikedef at mit.edu (Sea Grant)(papers), LinkedIn 617-258-7192(o), 617-963-4444(c) Projects: Remote Explorer, Multi-Arch Autonomy, RoboWhaler | |
Mike Sacarny, msacarny at mit.edu (Sea Grant), (papers), LinkedIn Projects: Remote Explorer, Charting the Charles, Prodromos, RoboWhaler, Sea Beaver, Autonomous Fish Tracking | |
Dr. Nick Rypkema, rypkema at mit.edu (WHOI/LAMSS), (papers), LinkedIn PhD 2019 MIT/WHOI Joint Program Projects: Underwater Swarm Navigation, Perseus |
Conlan Cesar, conlanc at csail.mit.edu (UMass-Amherst) (papers), LinkedIn 2019-Present, Research Collaborator and Consultant Projects: Aquaticus, MIT 2.680 TA, Multi-Arch Autonomy |
Graduate Students
Tyler Paine, 2020-Present, tpaine at mit.edu (MIT-MechE/WHOI JP), (papers), LinkedIn Ms 2018, Johns Hopkins Projects: MIT 2.680 Head TA, PBACS, Sea Beaver, Geometric Stochastic Ray Tracing , USV Model Estimation | |
Ray Turrisi, 2022-Present, rturrisi at mit.edu (MIT-MechE/WHOI JP), LinkedIn BS 2022, University of Rhode Island Projects: HydroLink | |
Filip Traasdahl Stromstad, 2023-Present, filipts at mit.edu (MIT-MechE), LinkedIn BS 2023, Cybernetics and Robotics at NTNU, Norway Projects: Swarm Autonomy | |
Jeremy Wenger, 2024-Present, jwenger at mit.edu (MIT-MechE/WHOI JP), LinkedIn BS 2024, Olin College Projects: BlueBoat Autonomy | |
Adam Cohen, 2024-Present, adamc710 at mit.edu (MIT-MechE/WHOI JP) BS 2024, Stevens Institute of Technology Projects: | |
Matthew Ahlers, 2023-Present, ahlers at mit.edu (MIT-MechE/Naval Architecture) Projects: Autonomous Sailing | |
Steve Nomeny, 2023-Present, scnomeny at mit.edu (NTNU), LinkedIn Projects: Skywalker |
Graduate Students (Visiting 2023)
Ching-Tang Hung (Underwater Acoustic Lab at National Taiwan University) Projects: Autonomous Fish Tracking | |
Herman Amundsen (Department of Engineering Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)) | |
Jouko Kinnari (Aalto University (Finland), School of Science and Technology) |
Undergrad Students (Summer 2023)
Sam Huang, MIT Projects: HydroLink | |
Spring Lin, MIT | |
Mark Franklin, Cornell University |
Post-Doc and Research Staff Lab Alumni
Dr. Michael Novtizky, PhD 2015, Georgia Tech (LAMSS), (papers) As of 2021, Professor, United States Military Academy at West Point Projects: Aquaticus, COLREGS, MIT 2.680 TA | |
Dr. Paul Robinette, PhD 2015 GTRI (LAMSS/SeaGrant), (papers) As of 2021, Professor, UMass Lowell Projects: Aquaticus, MIT 2.680 TA | |
Dr. Mohamed Saad IBN SEDDIK, PhD 2015 ENSTA Bretagne (LAMSS) As of 2021, President of blkSAIL Projects: Aquaticus, MIT 2.680 TA |
Alon Yaari (LAMSS/AUV Lab), (papers) As of 2021, Senior Roboticist at Neya Systems Projects: Aquaticus, RobotX-2014, MIT 2.680 TA | |
Caileigh Fitzgerald (LAMSS), (papers) As of 2021, Engineer II, Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering at WHOI Projects: Aquaticus, MIT 2.680 TA | |
Hugh Dougherty (LAMSS), (papers) As of 2021, Grad school, Virginia Tech, Ocean Engineering Projects: Aquaticus |
Grad Student Lab Alumni
Kevin Becker, 2022-Present, kevin00 at mit.edu (MIT-MechE) BS 2022, Webb Institute, MSc MIT June 2024 As of October 2024, Saab | |
Mikala Molina, 2022-Present, mnmolina at mit.edu (MIT-MechE/2N) BS 2017, USNA, MSc MIT June 2024 As of October 2024, US Navy | |
Jason Bradley Webb, 2023-Present, webbj at mit.edu (MIT-MechE/2N) BS 2013, Dallas Baptist University, MSc MIT June 2024 As of October 2024, US Navy | |
Blake Cole, blerk at mit.edu (MIT-MechE/WHOI Joint Program), (papers) Projects: MIT 2.680 TA | |
Eric Young, younge at mit.edu (MIT-MechE/2N) BS 2016, USNA, MSc MIT June, 2023 As of June 2023, US Navy | |
Nicholas Craig Evans, ncevans at mit.edu (MIT-MechE/WHOI Joint Program) MSc MIT August, 2022 As of October 2024, GD-APS | |
Nick Gershfeld, 2020-2022, gersni at mit.edu (MIT-MechE) MSc MIT June, 2022, Adaptive Collaborative Channel Finding Approaches for Autonomous Marine Vehicles As of September 2022, Amazon Robotics | |
Oscar A. Viquez Rojas, oviquezr at mit.edu (MechE/LAMSS), (papers) Tracking an Acoustic Source using a UUV, MIT 2.680 Head TA As of June 2022, Saildrone | |
John Li, (MIT-MechE/WHOI Joint Program) MSc August, 2020, A planned approach to high collision risk area As of 2021, US Navy | |
Jason Barker, (MIT-MechE/2N Program) MSc June, 2020, Automated decision making for operations within a Traffic Separation Scheme using MOOS-IvP, As of 2021, US Navy | |
Brian Stanfield, (MIT-MechE/2N Program) MSc June, 2020, Incorporating contact management and marine dynamics in decentralized auction bidding for autonomous surface vehicles, As of 2021, US Navy |
Greg Nannig, (MIT-MechE/LAMSS) MSc 2020, Using image processing methods for a radar estimate of marine vehicle odometry As of 2021, BAE Systems, LinkedIn | |
Dr. Nick Rypkema, rypkema at mit.edu (MIT-MechE/WHOI Joint Program/LAMSS) PhD 2019, Underwater & out of sight: towards ubiquity in underwater robotics As of 2021, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, | LinkedIn | |
Adam Michael Campbell, (MIT-MechE/2N Program) MSc 2018, Enabling Tactical Autonomy for Unmanned Surface Vehicles in Defensive Swarm Engagements As of 2020, US Navy | |
Joseph William Leavitt, (MIT-MechE/WHOI Joint Program) MSc 2017, Intent-aware collision avoidance for autonomous marine vehicles As of 2021, Delorean Power, LLC, LinkedIn | |
Dr. Kyle Woerner, (MIT-MechE/2N Program), (papers) PhD 2016, Multi-contact protocol-constrained collision avoidance for autonomous marine vehicles As of 2021, US Navy, DARPA TTO, LinkedIn | |
Dr. Erin Fischell, MIT (MIT-MechE/WHOI Joint Program/LAMSS) PhD 2015, Characterization of underwater target geometry from autonomous underwater vehicle ... | |
Jacob Gerlach, MIT (MIT-MechE/2N Program) MSc June 2015, Autonomous data collection techniques for approximating marine vehicle kinematics As of 2021, Marine Engineer, Glosten, LinkedIn | |
Dr. Arthur Douglas Anderson, III, (MIT-MechE/2N Program) PhD June 2015, The effect of towed array orientation on the 3D acoustic picture for sound sources and ... As of 2021, US Navy LinkedIn |
Undergrad Lab Alumni
Conlan Cesar, conlanc at gmail.com (MechE) Summer 2017, 2018 Pavlab intern Projects: Aquaticus | |
Carter Fendley, carter.fendley at gmail.com (MechE) Summer 2016, 2017, 2018 Pavlab intern Projects: Aquaticus | |
Valerie Hunter, vhunter at mit.edu (MechE) Summer 2018 Pavlab MIT UROP Projects: Remote Explorer, RoboChallenge | |
Heiko Dieter Kabutz, heikok@mit.edu (MRG) Summer 2018 Pavlab MIT UROP Projects: Remote Explorer, RoboChallenge | |
Jonathan Schwartz, jonbs98 at gmail.gwo.edu (MRG) Summer 2018 Pavlab intern Projects: Aquaticus | |
Erik Boesen, me@erikboesen.com (MechE) Summer 2018 Pavlab intern Projects: Aquaticus | |
Margaret Sullivan, msull at mit.edu (Sea Grant) Summer 2018 Pavlab MIT UROP Projects: Remote Explorer, RoboChallenge | |
Isaac Perper, iperper at mit.edu (Sea Grant) Summer 2018 Pavlab MIT UROP Projects: Remote Explorer, RoboChallenge | |
Joseph Doyle, j at random-stuff.org (MechE) Summer 2018 Pavlab intern Projects: Aquaticus | |
Brian Liang (Sea Grant) Summer 2018 Pavlab intern Projects: Remote Explorer | |
Arjun Gupta (MechE), (papers) Summer 2018 Pavlab MIT UROP Projects: Aquaticus | |
Danielle Gleason (MechE), (papers) Summer 2017 Pavlab MIT UROP Projects: Aquaticus | |
Cutter O'Connell (MechE) Summer 2016 Pavlab MIT UROP Projects: Aquaticus |