CRAY Colloquium: "Exploring the World's Oceans with Robotic Platforms for Mapping, Imaging and Manipulation"
This week's speaker, Hanumant Singh (Northeastern University), will be giving a talk titled, "Exploring the World's Oceans with Robotic Platforms for Mapping, Imaging and Manipulation."
Abstract
This talk looks at the role of robotic platforms for marine and polar mapping, imaging and manipulation. Using examples from research expeditions associated with Marine Geology, Archaeology, Coral Reef Ecology, Glaciology and Sea Ice we examine the hard problems in the underwater domain - where we are and where we are going in terms of geometric and machine learning techniques and algorithms.
Biography
Hanumant Singh is a Professor with joint appointments in the ECE and MIE departments at Northeastern University. He received his Ph.D. from the MIT WHOI Joint Program in 1995 after which he worked on the Staff at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution until 2016 when he joined Northeastern. His group has strong interests in low contrast imaging and has designed and built the Seabed AUV, as well as the Jetyak Autonomous Surface Vehicle, dozens of which are in use for scientific and academic research across the globe. He also has strong interests the development and use of small Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) and Autonomous Cars. He has participated in 65 expeditions in all of the world’s oceans in support of Marine Geology, Marine Biology, Deep Water Archaeology, Chemical Oceanography, Polar Studies, and Coral Reef Ecology. His work has been featured in National Geographic Magazine, the BBC, the New York Times, Wired Magazine, Discover Magazine and other news and television outlets around the world. He is founder/co-founder of two spinoff companies related to AUVs, and ASVs.
At Northeastern, he is the Director of the multidisciplinary Institute of Experiential Robotics. In collaboration with his students his awards include the ICRA Best Student Paper Award, the Sung Fu Memorial Best IEEE Transactions on Robotics Best Paper Award and Best Paper Awards at the Oceans Conference and at AGU. He is a Fellow of the IEEE and has received the IEEE Oceanic Engineering Society Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the design and use of Autonomous Marine Systems.
Category
Start date
Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, 11:15 a.m.
End date
Friday, Oct. 2, 2026, 12:15 p.m.
Location
Keller Hall 3-180