Hanumant Singh
Hanumant’s interests include system architecture and algorithms for high resolution acoustic, optical and chemical sensing; underwater vehicles (AUV, ROV, towed and Manned Vehicles), system architectures for navigation, docking and power; and the interactions between these subsystems.
Current Students / Postdocs
- Thomas Sayre McChord, MIT-WHOI Joint Program – working on Autonomous Surface Craft
- Yogesh Girdhar, Post doctoral Fellow
Past Post-docs
- Richard Kimball, Now Freelancing out of New York
- Rich Camilli, Now Associate Scientist at WHOI
- Brendan Foley, Now on research staff at WHOI
- Brian Bingham, Now Associate Professor at Olin College
- Ali Can, Now at GE Medical Systems Research Center
Past Students
- Dr Chris Murphy, Now at Bluefin Robotics
- Dr Clayton Kunz, Now at Google working on autonomous cars
- Cdr Geoff Gorman, US Navy
- Dr Jeffrey Kaeli, Now research staff at WHOI
- Grace Young, Graduate Student, Oxford University, UK
- Alyssa McKenna, Graduate Student, U Minnesota
- Emma Kilfoyle, Now at Amazon
- Jason Levoy
- Vikrant Shah, Now at British Petroleum (BP), Houston
- Qiao Hu*, PhD 2006, Currently Post-doc at WHOI
- Ryan Eustice, Ph D 2005, Currently Associate Professor at U of Michigan.
- Chris Roman, Ph D 2005, Associate Professor at U of Rhode Island
- Sacha Wichers***, MS 2005, Currently Engineer on the R/V Knorr
- Oscar Pizarro, Ph D 2004, Now with the Australian Center for Field Robotics, Sydney.
- Celeste Fowler, Graduate Student, Color Imaging Underwater, 2003-2004
Past Summer Students
- Grace Young
- Alyssa McKenna
- Emma Kilfoyle
- Jason Levoy
- Chris Murphy, Summer Student Fellow, Self Calibrating Transponder Navigation, 2005
- Jeff Kaeli, Guest Student, Coral Segmentation and Classification, 2005.
- Zachary Berkowitz, Summer Student Fellow, In-situ Chemical Sensors Underwater, 2004
- Jordan Pekor, Summer Student Fellow, LED array design for underwater imaging, 2003
- Nicole Nichols, Summer Minority Trainee, A Design for a Depth Upgrade to SeaBED, 2002 and 2003
- Rajesh Nadakuditi, Summer Student Fellow, Automated mosaicking of optical imagery, 2000
- **Jane Canulette, Summer Student Fellow, Architectural issues in AUV design, 1999
- Gregory Fries,Summer Student Fellow, Docking for Ocean Sampling Networks, 1998
- **Lt Erik Burian, USN, Master’s Thesis, Gradient following with ABE, 1996-1997
- **Frank Weyer, Graduate Student, Stereo imaging with ABE, 1995-1996
- **Lt Cmdr Phil LeBas, USN, Master’s Thesis, Control of an AUV at low speeds, 1995-1996
- **Ralf Bachmayer, Undergraduate Thesis, Bottom following with ABE, 1995
*Co-advised with Cabell Davis
**Co-advised with Dana R. Yoerger
***Co-advised with Rob Sohn