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Research Experience
1. Developed the HoloOcean Underwater Simulator built on Unreal Engine 4, which accurately models sonar, buoyancy, acoustic communications, and more.
2. Reef Mapping / Characterization: Autonomous surveying/mapping for investigating the preservation of coral reefs in Samoa and Hawaii.
3. Active Data Collection: Developing novel semi-supervised machine learning algorithms that allow AUVs to plan their paths more efficiently based on actively inferred environmental patterns combined with pre-embedded scientific knowledge.
4. Cross Modality: Improving information exchange and interaction between sensors in both single and multi-agent systems.
5. Navy Engineering Education Consortium (NEEC): Building simple and cheap UUV vehicles used for cooperative robotic applications.
6. Autonomous Civil Infrastructure Inspection: Developing methods to enable autonomous underwater vehicles to automatically inspect underwater structures such as ship hulls, dams, bridges, and piers.
7. Long-Term Coastal Semantic Localization: Comparing current observations of coastline environments to previously made predictions in order to achieve localization with respect to semantically labeled maps that may be outdated, expanding the possibilities of coastal monitoring in GPS-denied situations.