Meet our current postdoctoral fellows:

• Mauro Candeloro is developing algorithms to improve seafloor mapping surveys over complex seafloor terrain.
• Pushyami Kaveti is advancing perception and mapping tools for autonomous underwater vehicles.
• Guillaume Liniger is applying machine learning to data from robotic floats to see how physical and biological processes shape Southern Ocean ecosystems.
• Lee Miller is exploring how the microbes in the guts of deep-sea animals transform and transport carbon. 
• Olivia Soares Pereira is studying the community of organisms that feed on decomposing wood that falls to the deep seafloor.
• Théo Picard is using machine learning and data modeling to identify mechanisms driving intense pulses of carbon at a deep-sea research site offshore of Central California.
• Natasha Picciani is exploring the evolution of sensory systems in ctenophores and other gelatinous animals.
• Giovanni Testa is investigating how different physical processes influence phytoplankton biodiversity in the Galápagos Islands. 
• Shawnee Traylor is using advanced robots to better understand the mechanisms that control carbon export, recycling, and sequestration in the ocean.
• Hannah Walker is developing adaptive control systems powered by machine learning for imaging technologies on MBARI’s wave energy conversion buoy.
• Ciara Willis is leveraging an innovative MBARI imaging system to study the ecology of elusive pelagic predators like tunas and sharks.