Christopher  is a rising junior at Villanova University College of Engineering pursuing an Mechanical Engineering Major with  Business Minor.  His interests include design and controls with an aspiration to one day work in the private defense industry.  This year, Christopher is tasked with the redesign of the SeaCat boat as well as assistance in the system integration.

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Samantha Tropeano is a rising junior in the Villanova University College of Engineering pursuing a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in dynamic systems, as well as a Mechatronics minor. Her interests are in design and controls systems and her professional aspiration is to work in the amusement industry, designing and constructing roller coasters and other amusement rides. In this year’s project Samantha has been tasked with researching and integrating the boat’s acoustic technology.

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Michael is currently a rising senior Mechanical Engineering Major at Villanova University with a concentration in Dynamics Systems and minors in Mathematics and Mechatronics.  His future goals include gaining a masters degree to further his education, grow professionally with his knowledge of engineering and the industry, and to continue to pursue the discipline.  Michael's involvement includes systems integration and research on heat dissipation to apply to the hardware/software integration.

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Scott is currently a rising junior at Villanova University pursuing a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering with minors in bioengineering and mathematics.  In the future he hopes to attend graduate school to study biomedical engineering.  As a member of the RoboBoat team, Scott has been working on designing additional features to augment the current vehicle design.

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Adam DeAngelo is a Mechanical Engineering Major at Villanova University with a concentration in Dynamic Systems. He is a rising senior and also holds minors in Mechatronics and Business. After obtaining a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Adam is interested in pursuing a career in advanced weapons systems and robotics.

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Anderson Lebbad is a graduate research assistant for Villanova University. He is currently studying Mechanical Engineering, and has a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University as well as a minor in Mechatronics. His research is focused on image based navigation systems for autonomous surface vehicles, and systems integration.

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Chida is an Electrical Engineering graduate student specializing in System Dynamics and Controls at Villanova University. He has 2 years of Industry experience involving automotive engine management software development at Robert Bosch India. He is highly interested in embedded systems, mobile robotics and control systems.  On RobotX, Chida is responsible for IMU integration and navigation algorithms.

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John Wesley Anderson is a current MS student at Villanova University. He also attended Villanova University for his undergraduate degree. Throughout his time at Villanova, Wesley has displayed an interest for robotics and other similar systems. He has much experience working with control systems and sensors. His senior design project at Villanova was working on a low cost robot that would be used to help remove unexploded ordnances in third world countries such as Cambodia. Wesley also played rugby for Villanova University.

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Edward Zhu is a Junior mechanical engineering major concentrating in dynamic systems and control, with a minor in Mechatronics. This is his second year on Villanova University's Autonomous Surface Vehicle team and he is excited to assume the role of RoboBoat team leader for the 2014 RoboBoat Competition. When not in the lab, he spends much of his time as technical director producing shows for the organization Villanova Student Musical Theater.

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Dylan DeGaetano is a Junior Mechanical Engineering Student with a minor in Mechatronics. When not working on this project, Dylan enjoys singing, acting in various theater productions, and playing his drums. He is excited to be taking a leadership position on this year's Roboboat team, as well as tackling the new challenge that the RobotX Competition will present.

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Gin Cheng is an undergraduate student at Villanova University, majoring in Computer Engineering and minoring in Computer Science and Engineering Entrepreneurship. He is  pursing the 5 year master’s program at Villanova in Cyber Security. He will be working on some control hardware aspects of the boat, but his primary focus is systems integration and communications, lidar-video processing,  and code optimization.

Michael Benson is a junior at Villanova University pursuing a Bachelor's Degree in Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Dynamic Systems and Control and a minor in Mechatronics.  His interests include robotics and audio engineering.  His involvement with the Roboboat project includes work on acoustic sensing, image processing, underwater light detection, LIDAR, and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping.

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Priya Shah is a sophomore at Villanova University currently pursuing a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering with a Business Minor. She is the captain of Villanova’s competitive fusion dance team, Nova Nassa, public relations for the campus multicultural society, ambassador for prospective students, and coordinator for Villanova University’s Math Learning and Resource Center. Priya’s role as RobotX/Roboboat Project Manager consists of keeping track of progress being made both inside and outside of the lab. She helps organize team gatherings, makes sure tasks are done in time, and serves as a liaison between Villanova University and Florida Atlantic University.

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Gus is a Junior Mechanical Engineering student and has worked on this project last year as well. His professional aspirations include obtaining a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering specializing in robotics. Gus is looking forward to working on projects that integrate multiple aspects of mechanical and electrical engineering. As part of the 2015 Roboboat team at Villanova, his main tasks consist of integrating controls and pursing control systems engineering.

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Hometown: Toulouse, France

Bio: Helen Loeb is a Research Fellow at Villanova University. She received a M.S. in Aeronautical Engineering from ENSAE (Sup Aero), Toulouse, France and a Ph.D. in Control Engineering from University of Bordeaux, France. She previously built a USV for the Port of Bordeaux (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhavQ1XP4MU) and is interested in exploring the lidar possibilities as a detection system for a Collision Avoidance System. Helen worked for a few years industry where she developed graphic processing software in C++. She enjoys software development.

Hobbies: Piano, Swimming, Screaming at her kids

Research Interests: Dynamic Systems, Lidar, Nanotechnology, Solar cells

Hometown:  Seoul, South Korea

Bio: Dr. DongBin Lee is a research fellow in the Dynamic Systems Lab in the Mechanical Engineering Department and CENDAC at Villanova University, who received a Ph.D degree, majoring in Robotics and Mechatronics, focusing on intelligent unmanned systems at Clemson University in SC, Ph.D coursework and M.S. in Robotics (formerly known as Control and Instrumentation Engineering), and B.S. in Electronics and Communications Engineering at KwangWoon University in Seoul at South Korea.

His research are mainly focused on two areas; Control and Autonomous unmanned systems, especially for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV), unmanned autonomous surface vessels (ASV), unmanned underwater vehicles (UUV), Robotics, and automated manufacturing systems.

Hometown: North Smithfield, Rhode Island

Bio: Ralph Sullivan is a research assistant and graduate student with Villanova University.  He is a recent graduate from Villanova University, with a Bachelors of Science in Mechanical Engineering.  He attended the University of Rhode Island and also Villanova University for his Undergraduate Degree

Research Interests: Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics.

Hobbies: Watching and playing sports including soccer, basketball, and baseball.

Hometown: Dhaka, Bangladesh

Bio: Shahriar Khan is an Graduate Research Assistant for Villanova University.  He is currently a graduate student in Electrical Engineering.  He has many likes, including the band Oasis, The first 3 American Pie Movies, and his favorite actress is Reese Witherspoon.  Shahriar, however, does not enjoy horror films because he believes the plots are all the same.

Hobbies: Playing Cricket, Watching TV and meeting new people from different cultures.

Research interest: RF and Microwave Devices

Hometown:  Springfield PA

Bio: Junior Mechanical Engineer with Mechatronics Minor. Though fulfilling the title of Enginerd par- excelance, there is also a strong interest in music and theater at work.

Hobbies: Singing, acting, biking, and anything that moves

Research Interests: Dynamic systems and control structures

Nick DiLeo received his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Villanova University in May 2013 with a concentration in Dynamics and Control and is in the M.S. program.  He was a member of Villanova's Roboboat team in 2011 and the team leader in 2012.  Recently, Nick has been involved on a team that is part of DARPA's Robotic Challenge at Lockheed Martin. Nick's main role for the RobotX competition will be developing and implementing an algorithm for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM).  The end result of this work will give the surface vehicle estimates of the position of important landmarks as well as the position of the vehicle itself.

Hometown: Ocean Springs MS

Research Interests: Autonomous vehicles, robotics

Hobbies: Crew, Outdoor activities, music

Hometown: Allentown, PA

Bio: Ryan Holihan is a senior at Villanova University, he is studying Mechanical Engineering with a minor in Mechetronics.

Research Interests: Mechetronics, robotics

Hobbies: Sailing, rowing, electrical/computer projects

Hometown: Glen Cove, NY

Bio: Mike is a Senior Computer Engineering major at Villanova with a Computer Science and Business minor. His interest is in the aerospace and defense industry.
Hobbies: Playing golf, video gaming, reading, watching football

Research Interests: Signal Processing, Software Design