Robotics
George Barbastathis
Singapore Research Professor of Optics; Professor of Mechanical Engineering Home Phone: (617) 253-1960 Personal Email: gbarb@mit.edu Interest Areas: optics, autonomous imaging Website WebsitePhysics and engineering of 3D optical systems for use in autonomous devices to capture digital holographic images of ocean species (e.g. plankton) and multi-phase flows.
Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis
Director, MIT Sea Grant, Doherty Professor of Ocean Science and Engineering Professor of Mechanical & Ocean Engineering Home Phone: 617 253-7131 Personal Email: chrys@mit.edu Interest Areas: autonomous underwater vehicles Website WebsiteDevelopment of technology and systems for advanced autonomous surface and underwater vehicles.
Franz S. Hover
Finmeccanica Career Development Professor in Engineering Home Phone: (617) 253-6762 Personal Email: hover@mit.edu Interest Areas: networking, engineering Website WebsiteDesign methods for complex ocean systems; autonomous inspection of in-water ships; design of ocean networks comprising groups of communicating vehicles as well as fluid and power systems.
John Leonard
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering Home Phone: (617) 253-0607 Personal Email: jleonard@mit.edu Interest Areas: navigation, robotics, mapping Website WebsiteNavigation and mapping for autonomous mobile robots, robotic localization and mapping applications below, on and above water in marine and river environments.
Pierre Lermusiaux
Associate Professor in Ocean Utilization Home Phone: (617) 324-5172 Personal Email: pierrel@mit.edu Interest Areas: modeling systems, ocean dynamics Website WebsiteOcean modeling and data assimilation techniques to quantify regional ocean dynamics on multiple scales; new methods for multiscale modeling, uncertainty quantification, data assimilation and the guidance of autonomous vehicles.
David Mindell
Dibner Professor of the History of Engineering and Manufacturing, and Head of DeepArch Group in Technology, Archaeology and the Deep Sea Home Phone: (617) 253-0221 Personal Email: mindell@mit.edu Interest Areas: Website WebsiteHistorian and electrical engineer, an expert on human/machine relationships in broad technical, social, and historical contexts.
Nicholas Patrikalakis
Kawasaki Professor of Engineering Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering Home Phone: (617) 253-4555 Personal Email: nmp@mit.edu Interest Areas: Robotics and Sensing Website WebsiteRobotics and Sensing, Dynamic Data-Driven Forecasting Systems, Computer-Aided Design, Visualization.
Daniela Rus
Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Head of CSAIL Home Phone: (617) 258 7567 Personal Email: rus@csail.mit.edu Interest Areas: environmental robotics Website WebsiteDistributed robotics, mobile computing, programmable matter and applications in environmental robotics.
Henrik Schmidt
Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering Home Phone: (617) 253-5727 Personal Email: henrik@mit.edu Interest Areas: engineering, acoustics Website WebsiteArctic and shallow water acoustics; scattering and reverberation due to sea surface and ice roughness; determination of seismic-acoustic propagation and reverberation in ocean environments; and 3-D acoustics in very shallow water.
Alexandra H. Techet
Associate Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering Home Phone: (617) 452-2266 Personal Email: ahtechet@mit.edu Interest Areas: hydrodynamics, engineering Website WebsiteSolving hydrodynamics problems for use by the ocean science and engineering communities through rigorous experimental investigation and imaging.
Michael S. Triantafyllou
William I. Koch Professor of Marine Technology; Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering; Associate Head for Ocean Engineering Home Phone: (617) 253-4335 Personal Email: mistetri@mit.edu Interest Areas: fluid dynamics, biometrics Website WebsitePhysics of flow-sensing in fish and marine mammals; achieving super-maneuverability in ocean vehicles through flow feedback control; development of biometric robots to study the agility of fish and cetaceans.
Brian Williams
Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics Home Phone: (617) 253-1678 Personal Email: williams@mit.edu Interest Areas: model-based programming, robotics Website WebsiteModel-based programming and cooperative space, air, land and undersea vehicles, on Earth and on other planets
