Alan Papalia

Assistant Professor, Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor
Joined
January 2025

Names

Alan Papalia (Preferred)

Emails

****@mit.edu (Confirmed)
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
****@umich.edu (Confirmed)

Personal Links

Career & Education History

Assistant Professor
Naval Architecture & Marine Engineering, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor (umich.edu)
2026Present
Postdoc
ECE, Northeastern University (neu.edu)
20252025
PhD student
Mechanical Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (mit.edu)
20192025
PhD student
Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (whoi.edu)
20192025
Undergrad student
Mechanical Engineering, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (uiuc.edu)
20152019

Advisors, Relations & Conflicts

Coauthor
Present
Postdoc Advisor
20252025
Postdoc Advisor
20252025
PhD Advisor
20192025

Expertise

Verification
Semidefinite Programming
Present
Marine Robotics
Field Robotics
Environmental Monitoring
Present
SLAM
State Estimation
Robot Perception
Robot Navigation
Present

Publications

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Co-Authors