SPEAKERS
List of speakers (ordered alphabetically) that have so far confirmed their contribution to the MRSchool. The envisioned number of speakers is 28.
While the event adopts a hybrid format, with the intention of fostering meaningful interactions primarily among in-person attendees, especially students, we are striving for a distribution where the proportion of online speakers to in-person speakers does not surpass 1/6.
Mohd Rizal Arshad
Professor, Universiti Sains Malaysia
Research Area: Robotics and Industrial Automations, MeasUrement and Instrumentation Techniques, Biomedical Electronics and Medical Imaging, Underwater Robotics Technology.
David Cabecinhas
Associate Professor, IST, Univ. Lisbon, Portugal
Research Area: Robot Control; Fault Detection and Reconfiguration; Real-Time Systems Implementation and HIL simulations using the Robot Operating Systems (ROS)
Massimo Caccia
Research manager,Institute of Marine Engineering ,Genoa, Italy
Research Area: Cooperative navigation, guidance and control of heterogeneous unmanned marine vehicles. Modeling and identification of unmanned marine vehicles. Design and development of prototype marine robots, Polar marine robotics,Digital twins
Biswajeet Chakraborty
Chief Scientist(Retired), CSIR-National Institute of oceanography, Goa, India
Research Area: Underwater Passive Acoustics,Multibeam mapping, Seafloor classification and characterization using acoustics, Underwater Acoustics and related signal processings
Rita Cunha
FCT Researcher,IST, Univ. Lisbon, Portugal
Research Area: Systems and Control, Autonomous Robotic Vehicles
Jorge Manuel Miranda Dias
Professor, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi, Department of Electronical and Computer Engineering
Research Area: Computer Vision, Robotics Image and Signal Analysis, Microprocessors and Digital Systems, Advanced Processing Architectures, Machile Learning
Rory Findlay
Business Development Manager at Nortek UK working in subsea robotics and oceanography
Research Area: Navigation Systems. DVL-based navigation. Development of advanced acoustic navigation systems.
Jorge Fontes
Assistant researcher,University of the Azores,Horta; Post doc researcher,IMAR - Instituto do Mar: Horta, Azores, Portugal
Research Area: Fish recruitment, reef and seamount fish ecology and MPA design. Control of marine invasive algae. Spatial ecology and connectivity of seamount fish populations. Marine megafauna. Marine robotic technology applied to marine science. Tracking of marine species.
Thor I. Fossen
Professor, Dept. of Eng. Cybernetics, Norwegian University of Science and Technology,Norway
Research Area: Autonomous vehicles and Marine Robotics. Vehicle Modeling. Navigation Systems. Guidance and Control, Cooperative Systems.
Vahid Hassani
Professor,Oslo Metropolitan University,Oslo, Norway
Research Area: Marine control systems, Autonomous Ships, Data-driven control.
Manu Ignatius
Chief Executive Officer at Subnero
Research Area: Acoustic communications. Development of advanced communication systems.
Giovanni Indiveri
Associate Professor, University of Genoa, Italy
Research Area: Marine Robotics, Mobile Robotics, Robotics, Systems and Control Engineering.
Pramod Khargonekar
Professor ,Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Irvine
Research Area: Control and systems theory, cyber-physical systems, and applications to manufacturing, renewable energy and smart grids. Machine learning for control and estimation. Understanding and improving processes that connect research to innovation
Maarja Kruusmaa
Professor,Head of Centre - Centre for Biorobotics: Department of Computer Systems, Tallinn University of Technology,Estonia
Research Area: Biorobotics, electroactive materials and devices and their control, underwater robotics and learning algorithms for intelligent robots.
Pramod Maurya
Scientist, CSIR-National Institute of oceanography, Goa, India
Research Area: Design and Development of Autonomous Marine Robots; Navigation and Control; Geophysical Navigation; Robots for sustained presence at Sea.
Pratyush Menon
Lecturer ,University of Exeter, UK
Research Area:Distributed Control and Estimation, Multi Agent Systems, Formation and Cooperative Control. Obstacle Detection and Avoidance, Boundary Mapping / Source Localization.
Koena Mukherjee
Assistant Professor, NIT Silchar
Research Area: Autonomous robots (Aerial, Underwater), Biomimetic robots, Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, Nonlinear Control of Robots, Robust & Adaptive Control, Motion Planning.
Andrea Munafó
Research Lead, University of Pisa, Italy
Research Area: Acoustics, Robotics, Multi-agent systems, Sensor Networks, AI planning.
Edin Omerdic
Senior Research Fellow , Dept. of Electronic & Computer Engineering, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Research Area: Modeling & Simulation of dynamic systems (marine platforms, ocean dynamics & disturbances).
Antonio Pascoal
Associate Professor, IST, Univ. Lisbon, Portugal
Adjunct Scientist, National Institute of Oceanography, Goa, India
Research Area: Cooperative Motion Planning, Navigation, and Control; Dynamical Systems; Marine Robotics
Amit Ray
Naval Architect, Indian Navy.
Research Area: Design of underwater vehicles, Manoeuvring Hydrodynamics of underwater vehicles, AUV development, Geopolitics.
Pere Ridao
Assocate Professor, CIRS, Univ. of Girona, Spain. IQUA Robotics Co-founder
Research Area: Autonomous Intervention; Opto/Acoustic Simultaneous Localization and Mapping Underwater; Motion planning.
David Salinas
Assistant Professor, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia, Spain
Research Area: Machine Learning, AI for modelling and identification, Navigation and Control of Marine Robots, Optimal Sensor Placement for Target Localization.
Pedro J Sanz
Head of the Interactive and Robotic Systems Lab ,Professor,Computer Science and Engineering Department , Jaume I University of Castellón ,Spain
Research Area: Robotics and Artificial Intelligence applied to real life scenarios with special emphasis on field robotics and intervention systems. Autonomous underwater vehicles.
Luis Sebastião
Research Engineer, IST, Univ. Lisbon, Portugal
Research Area: Marine Robotics and Systems Integration; Deep Sea Systems; Hydrographic and Geotechnical Surveys
Dana Yoerger
Senior Scientist,Applied Ocean Physics & Engineering,Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), Massachusetts, USA
Research Area: Robotics, automation of remotely operated and autonomous underwater vehicles; localization, navigation, and positioning, autonomous robots for exploration of the seafloor and the ocean's twilight zone.