Guest Investigators
Gideon Billings
Guest Investigator
Research Interests: Underwater perception, SLAM, and real-time scene reconstruction, machine learning for underwater vision, autonomous and semi-autonomous manipulation.
Contact: gbillings@whoi.edu
Alexandra Padilla
Guest Investigator
Research Interests: Fate and transport of methane gas bubbles released from the seafloor; understanding how physical properties of gas bubbles (e.g., shape, size, surface coating, etc.) affect the scattering of sound and the dissolution process of gas bubbles in liquid mediums through laboratory experimentation, field work, and sensor development.
Contact: alexandra.padilla@whoi.edu
Victoria Preston
Guest Investigator
Research Interests: Decision-making under uncertainty, adaptive sampling, field robotics, spatiotemporal distributions, geochemistry.
Contact: vpreston@whoi.edu