Antonella Wilby
Research Engineer at National Geographic Society
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolAntonella Wilby is a research engineer and veteran submersible pilot specializing in underwater robotics, imaging, and environmental monitoring with 12 years of experience deploying and developing systems for deep-sea and coastal science. She blends hands-on ROV piloting (Jason, Hercules, SuBastian, Saab Seaeye, BlueROV2) and offshore certification with firmware, embedded systems, and autonomy software—work that has supported NASA SBIR projects, hydrothermal vent sensors, and ASV obstacle-tracking using marine radar. At institutions from Caltech to the Ocean Exploration Trust and National Geographic she has led GUI and control software redesigns, sensor integration, and field expeditions, while also producing low-cost conservation tech for endangered species monitoring. Her background spans machine vision SLAM research, stereo and acoustic sensing platforms, and production-grade topside and embedded codebases (Qt/C++, ROS, CANopen, PSoC), showing fluency across firmware-to-GUI stacks. Antonella is available for contracted offshore and onshore roles and uniquely combines expedition-grade operational experience with academic research and public-facing science communication. Unexpectedly, she holds patents and has implemented high-frequency acoustic signal processing for marine mammal monitoring, demonstrating a rare mix of signal-processing chops and sea-going engineering.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
C. Phil (Candidate in Philosophy) Marine Robotics, C. Phil (Candidate in Philosophy) Marine Robotics at UC San Diego Jacobs School of EngineeringUniversity of California, San DiegoThe University of SydneyAssociate of Science - AS Mechanical Engineering; Manufacturing; Music, Associate of Science - AS Mechanical Engineering; Manufacturing; Music at Glendale Community College
English, Spanish
Github Skills (5)
stem4
stereo4
privacy3
ieee3
cnc-controller1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
awilby/stereo_rig
Jul 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 1 push, 3 issues in 3 years 1 month
stereodivingrig
UCSD-E4E/stingray-vision
Dec 2013 - Mar 2014
Contributions:4 commits in 2 months
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