Victoria Preston
Assistant Professor Of Engineering at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolVictoria Preston is an Assistant Professor of Engineering at Olin College and a Guest Investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution who builds robotic tools for scientifically useful action in extreme marine environments. With an MIT-WHOI PhD in Autonomous Systems and 11 years of experience spanning postdoctoral research at Northeastern and hands-on industry internships at places like Uber ATC, she designs algorithms and hardware that enable robots to perceive, predict, and plan for real-time sampling in dynamic oceanic fields. Her work bridges applied ocean science and aeronautics, focusing on probabilistic representations for decision-making in deep-sea plumes, coral reefs, and estuaries, and has been supported by fellowships including NDSEG and a Martin Fellowship for Sustainability. An educator at heart, she creates problem-driven, interactive courses that challenge students to rethink what “robots” and “intelligence” mean while producing tangible outputs—publications, patents, and field-deployable systems like SnotBot.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Applied Ocean Science and Engineering, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Applied Ocean Science and Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologySouth River High SchoolBachelor's degree Engineering, Bachelor's degree Engineering at Franklin W. Olin College of EngineeringEducation, Education at Wellesley College
Github Skills (17)
trajectory-generation9
robotics9
motion-planning9
pybullet9
planning9
warmup6
sampling5
atmosphere5
ecology5
environmental5
ros4
spring3
python3
science3
machine-learning2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
expeditionary-robotics/informative-path-planning
Apr 2018 - Oct 2020
Informative path planning repository
Contributions:215 commits, 115 pushes, 25 branches in 2 years 6 months
path-planningroboticsinformativepybullettrajectory-generation
vpreston/vpreston.github.io
Jan 2020 - Mar 2023
Personal website for Victoria Preston
Contributions:9 PRs, 52 pushes, 8 branches in 3 years 2 months
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