I am a PhD student in the MIT - WHOI joint program, studying marine robotics. This puts me at the intersection of several disciplines, including Computer Science, Ocean Engineering, Oceanography, and Mechanical Engineering. Officially, I’m affiliated with the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at MIT, and the department of Applied Ocean Science and Engineering at WHOI.

My current work is in robot perception. I’m researching techniques to fuse imagery from optical cameras with bathymetric maps from multi-beam sonar.  Along the way, I’m spending time studying computer vision, photogrammetry, autonomous map-building, and robot navigation and state estimation.

Before I returned to graduate school, I worked for several years at NASA Ames Research Center, in the intelligent robotics group.  I also spent time at a start-up company called Mobot, building robotic tour guides for museums, and at SGI, working on data mining and machine learning software.