Michael DeFilippo

Michael has been a marine robotics research engineer in the AUV Laboratory in the MIT Mechanical Engineering department since 2013. His primary research focus is in unmanned surface vessel autonomy and perception with over six years of in-field robotics experience in ROS for perception, navigation, and simulation, as well as MOOS-IvP for autonomous decision making and multi-robot systems. He has designed robotic perception systems from the ground up and has extensive experience in OpenCV, PCL, sensor fusion and multiple machine learning
frameworks. Michael received his Masters in Robotics Software Engineering from Brandeis University in 2022 and a Bachelors in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Suffolk University in 2013. Prior to this, he served in the U.S. Air Force for six years as a laser and infrared avionics technician.

Education
B.S. Electrical and Computer Engineering, Suffolk University, 2013
B.S. Business Administration, University of Maryland University College, 2009
M.S. Robotics Software Engineering, Brandeis University, 2022