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Principal Investigators at MIT and Collaborators in Singapore:

MIT	Singapore
Andrew J. Whittle: Lead PI E. Eric Adams George Barbastathis Elfatih A. B. Eltahir Dara Entekhabi Charles F. Harvey V. Judson Harward Harold F. Hemond Franz S. Hover John Leonard Steven R. Lerman Ole S. Madsen Leslie Norford Nicholas M. Patrikalakis Paola Rizzoli Peter Shanahan Michael S. Triantafyllou	Adams, Martin David Chan, Eng Soon Cheong, Hin Fatt Chitre, Mandar A. Chua, Hock Chye Lloyd Koh, Tieh-Yong Law, Wing-Keung Adrian Lim, Hock Beng Lo, Yat-Man Edmond Miao, Jianmin Mueller-Wittig, Karl Wolfgang Roth, Matthias Seah, Harry Shuy, Eng Ban Wijesoma, Wijerupage Sardha Wittkopf, Stephen K. Wong, Nyuk Hien

Senior Staff and Postdocs:

MIT	Singapore
Research Scientists: Wonjoon Cho Lewis Girod Research Associates: Jun Wei Postdoctoral Associates: Sai Ravela Alfred Tan ... to be added ...	Program Manager: David Burke Research Engineers: Chee Wee Tan Ruoqian Wang Postdoctoral Associates: Tirtha Bandyopadhyay Alex Cobb Peifeng Ma Ami Preis ... to be added ...

Graduate Students:

MIT	Singapore
Charlie Ambler Julie Chalfant Jose A. Dominguez-Caballero Vicente Fernandez Terianne Hall Stephen Hou Satoshi Takahashi Laura Waller ... to be added ...	Rebecca Gianotti Kam Shing Leung Rebecca Neumann ... to be added ...

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Franz S. Hover

Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering
Room 5-207, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
Tel: (617)-253-6762, E-mail: hover@mit.edu

Academic Preparation:

• Sc.D. in Mechanical and Oceanographic Engineering, January 1993, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
• S.M. in Mechanical and Oceanographic Engineering, August 1989, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
• B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, May 1987, Ohio Northern University, Ada, OH

Appointments:

• 2007-present : Assistant Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering
• 2001-2007: Principal Research Engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 1997-2001: Research Engineer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• 1993-1995: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Monterey Bay Aqaurium Research Institute
• 1992-present: Consultant: American Electronics, Woods Hole Marine Systems, Advanced Marine Technologies, Bluefin Robotics, FlatGyro, BAE Systems, Disney Imagineering, Impossible Pictures

Four Recent Publications:

• Hover, F.S., and M.S. Triantafyllou, "Application of Polynomial Chaos in Stability and Control," Automatica, 46, 789-795, 2006
• Beal, D.N., F.S. Hover, and M.S. Triantafyllou, "Passive Propulsion in Vortex Wakes," Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 549, 385-402, 2006
• Rentschler, M.E., F.S. Hover, and C. Chryssostomidis 2006. "System Identification of Open-Loop Maneuvers Leads to Improved AUV Flight Performance," IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering, 31(1), 200-208
• Hover, F.S., and M.S. Triantafyllou, "Dynamic Optimization with Legendre Chaos," Automatica, accepted, 2007

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