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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.

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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