Alan Papalia (Preferred)
Alan Papalia
Pronouns: he/him
Assistant Professor, Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Postdoc, ECE, Northeastern University
PhD student, Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD student, Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
- Joined January 2025
Names
Emails
****@mit.edu (Confirmed)
, ****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Assistant Professor
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (umich.edu)
2026 – Present
Postdoc
ECE, Northeastern University (neu.edu)
2025 – 2025
PhD student
Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)
2019 – 2025
PhD student
Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (whoi.edu)
2019 – 2025
Undergrad student
Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (uiuc.edu)
2015 – 2019
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Expertise
Verification, Semidefinite Programming
Present
Marine Robotics, Field Robotics, Environmental Monitoring
Present
SLAM, State Estimation, Robot Perception, Robot Navigation
Present