Luis Sánchez Crespo has completed his dual Master's degree in Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. He has collaborated with different research groups as the Institute for Technological Development and Innovation (IDETIC), the Oceanic Platform of Canary Islands (PLOCAN), and the Institute of Applied Microelectronics (IUMA) where he actually researches on imaging super-resolution algorithms.
His professional interests lie in computer vision, signal processing, and electronic design applied on robotics systems. For this reason, he joined the AVORA team, a group of young engineers and students working on the development of Underwater Autonomous Vehicles (AUV) from scratch. Inside this project, Luis has started developing acoustic and computer vision systems, extracting information from different sensors such as hydrophones, SONAR, or camera. He has also been involved in the electronic design of the vehicle. Finally, he has played the Team Leader role during the preparation of the SAUC-E'13 challenge.
With a strong background gained in marine technology, Luis joined Biomecan, a young startup, where he works on developing remotely operated and autonomous vehicles for aquatic environments.
He is very enthusiastic and an engineer in multiple disciplines. He is responsible for his work. He can manage himself and can take up responsibilities as a Team Leader, as demonstrated at the SAUC-E competition directing the AVORA team. His background in electronics and telecommunications allows him to cover a wide range of expertise from signal processing and software, to electronic design and fabrication.
He has focused his career in 2D and 3D signal processing, with the development of a system for tracking and detecting signs of exhaustion and the risk of falling asleep in drivers. After this successful research, he started working on two different projects at the same time. The first of these projects focused mainly on achieving video sequences enhancement applying super-resolution. The second project, and one of his most important achievements, was participating in the development of an autonomous underwater vehicle for the Students Autonomous Underwater Challenge-Europe (SAUC-E) in which his team achieved great recognition with the fourth most important prize. In his second year, he took up the mantle of Team Leader, again being recognized by his work during competition.
Matthieu Keller is a French student who has completed several internships in development, system administration, and cyber security. His education is mainly in Computer Science and Robotics, but he enjoys all kinds of scientific topics.
Damian Melniczuk graduated with Physics from the Wrocław University of Technology, where he currently works in the quantum cryptography laboratory. Apart from using photons for transporting encryption keys, he is also involved in hacker culture and open source movement. His current projects are: setting up Wroclaw Hackerspace (http://hswro.org/) and building an open source modular home automation system (http://openhomeautomation.blogspot.com/).