Research Statement

Marine robots have benefited enormously from recent advances in computing, battery, and sensing technologies that enable them to be highly capable remote sensing platforms.  These vehicles have proven to be invaluable tools for scientific data collection, search and rescue, and other applications where it is either too dangerous or too expensive to use humans. To fully unlock the potential of these vehicles, we need algorithms and models that enable robots to efficiently reason about the observations they are making in real time, improving their ability to act as independent autonomous agents of ocean science.