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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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John Leonard

Associate Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering
Room 5-214, 77 Mass ave., Cambridge, MA 02139
Phone: (617) 285-4939, Fax: (617) 253-8125, E-mail: jleonard@mit.edu

Academic Preparation:

• University of Pennsylvania (Elec. Eng.), B.S.E.E., 1987
• University of Oxford, D.Phil., 1994

Appointments:

• Associate Professor, MIT Dept. of Mech. Eng., 2000-Present
• Assistant Professor, MIT Dept. of Ocean Eng, 1996-2000

Honors:

• E.T.S. Walton Visitor Award, Science Foundation Ireland, 2004

Four Recent Publications:

• R. Eustice, H. Singh, J. Leonard, and M. Walter. Visually Mapping the RMS Titanic: Conservative Covariance Estimates for SLAM Information Filters. International Journal of Robotics Research, 25(12), pages 1223-1242, December, 2006
• R. Eustice, H. Singh and J. Leonard. Exactly Sparse Delayed-State Filters for View-Based SLAM. Accepted for publication in IEEE Transactions on Robotics, December, 2006
• A. Bahr and J. Leonard. Cooperative Localization for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles. In Experimental Robotics X}, Rio de Jainero, July, 2006
• E. Olson, J. Leonard, S. Teller. Fast Iterative Alignment of Pose Graphs with Poor Initial Estimates. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, pages 2262-2269, May, 2006

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