11/05/2026: Algorithmic Foundations for Widespread Autonomous Marine Observation
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Time: 11:00am – 12:00pm EDT
Location: Virtual or NOAA Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Lake Superior Hall*
Presenter: Dr. Alan Papalia, Assistant Professor, Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, University of Michigan
Title: Algorithmic Foundations for Widespread Autonomous Marine Observation
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About the speaker: Alan Papalia is an assistant professor in Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering at the University of Michigan, where he runs the Robotic Exploration Lab. He received his PhD in Ocean Engineering from MIT and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. His research focuses on algorithms to enable robots to explore, study, and understand the natural world, with an aim of dramatically increasing the amount and types of data we have access to. He is a recipient of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics King-Sun Fu Best Paper Award and was selected as a 2025 Robotics: Science and Systems Pioneer.
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