Victoria Preston
Future Faculty Fellow, Electrical and Computer Engineering
Contact
- v.preston@northeastern.edu
- 360 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Research Focus
embodied intelligence, planning under uncertainty, scientific machine learning, model-based learning, environmental sampling, applied ocean engineering
About
Education
PhD (2022), Autonomous Systems, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Perceive, Predict, and Plan: Robotic Expeditionary Science in Oceanic Spatiotemporal Fields.
SM (2019), Aeronautics and Astronautics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. Adaptive Sampling of Transient Environmental Phenomena with Autonomous Mobile Platforms.
BS (2016), Engineering: Robotics, Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering.
Honors & Awards
Future Faculty Fellowship | Northeastern University, 2023-24
Rising Stars in Aerospace | 2022
Martin Family Society of Fellows for Sustainability | MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative, 2021-22
Ocean Ventures Fund Recipient | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 2020
National Defense Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowship | 2017
National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship | 2017 (declined)
Fulbright Student Grant | Tallinn Institute of Technology, Estonia, 2016
Research Overview
embodied intelligence, planning under uncertainty, scientific machine learning, model-based learning, environmental sampling, applied ocean engineering