Gabriel Hugh Elkaim received his Ph.D. from Stanford University’s aeronautics and astronautics department in 2002 and joined the computer engineering department at UC Santa Cruz the same year. He has been developing autonomous and embedded systems for more than 25 years, including uncrewed flight and ground, marine surface and underwater vehicles. His research focus is at the intersection of sensing, estimation, control and automation to enable relevant data collection and understanding.
Relevant expertise:
- Autonomous vehicle navigation and control: developing guidance, navigation, and control systems for autonomous ground and aerial vehicles, including GPS research and sensor fusion for autonomous operations
- Autonomous systems architecture: creating robust software architectures for real-time autonomous systems, including path planning, system identification and cooperative control for UAVs