The mission of my team was to make ocean research more affordable and accessible.
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Built sustainable and affordable benthic imaging systems aimed at discovering and extending the range of multiple species
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Responsibilities included: circuit board troubleshooting, circuit design, machine level programming, monitoring satellite signal levels, battery classification and design, analytics.
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Developed a new release mechanism that reduced cost per deployment and reduced material left on the seafloor by 50%.
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Collaborated with a backend engineering team who built a Machine Learning model which automatically detects fish in video for identification. This AI sped up the processing of collected data by up to 15 times.
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Created training programs for MIT Open Ocean Labs faculty and students leading to more than 40 successful deployments.