Marek W. Doniec
Curriculum Vitae
Education
| December 2012 | Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyMassachusetts Institute of Technology Thesis: Autonomous Underwater Data Muling using Wireless Optical Communication and Agile AUV Control |
| April 2007 | M.S. in Computer Science, Yale University Full scholarship funded by the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) GPA: 4.0 / 4.0. |
| Apr 2007 | Certificate in Computer Science, École Polytechnique, France Grand Prix d’Option (best thesis award in class of 500), European Union scholarship (Erasmus) Finished with honors. |
| September 2004 | Vordiplom (B.S.) in Computer Science, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany GPA: 4.0 / 4.0 (ranked 1 / 314). |
Research Experience
| August 2007 – present | MIT Robust Robotics Group, Cambridge, MA Advisor: Prof. Nicholas Roy Researching estimation and control for complex and exotic vehicle morphologies. |
| August 2007 – Dec 2012 | MIT Distributed Robotics Laboratory, Cambridge, MA Advisor: Prof. Daniela Rus Researched automated data retrieval, communication, and controls. Designed and implemented autonomous underwater data muling system to harvest information from subsea sensor nodes, including a state-of-the-art underwater optical communication device. Developed and implemented sensor network for behavioral monitoring of cattle. |
| May 2011 – August 2011 | Rethink Robotics (formerly Heartland Robotics), Boston, MA Advisor: Matthew Williamson Modeled inverse kinematics, gravity compensation, and end-effector force of a seven-degree-of-freedom mechanical arm. Designed and operated test benches and procedures for stress testing as well as frequency and force analysis of mechanical actuators. |
| September 2010 – February 2011 | Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART), Singapore Advisor: Prof. Daniela Rus Oversaw development and production of 100 modular sensor nodes used for pedestrian, car, and bus tracking. |
| August 2005 – June 2007 | Yale Social Robotics Laboratory, Yale University, New Haven, CT Advisor: Prof. Brian Scassellati Researched the development of joint attention for a humanoid robot (the ability to share the focus of attention with a user). Designed and implemented an infant-sized humanoid hand for grasping and pointing, and developed algorithms for hand-eye coordination. |
| April 2005 – July 2005 | INRIA (National Research Institute for Computer Science and Automation), Saclay, France Advisor: Prof. Olivier Temam Designed and implemented in C++ a modular and distributed simulator for chip multiprocessors with hundreds of cores. This work won the Grand Prix d’Option (best thesis award in a class of 500) of the ツole Polytechnique. |
| October 2003 – September 2004 | Interactive Systems Lab, Universität Karlsruhe (TH), Germany Advisors: Prof. Alex Waibel and Prof. Tanja Schultz. Developed interface and software architecture for a brain-computer interface based on electroencephalography. |
Honors and Awards
| November 2012 | Best Demo Award, International Conference on Underwater Networks and Systems (WUWNet 2012) for the demo Robust Real-Time Underwater Digital Video Streaming using Optical Communication |
| November 2012 | Best Paper Award, International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation (IPIN 2012) for the paper Indoor Magnetic Field Characterization for Applications in Localization and Simultaneous Localization and Mapping |
| July 2007 | Best Paper Award, International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL 2007) for the paper Learning Grounded Semantics With Word Trees: Prepositions and Pronouns |
| March 2007 | Awarded Sterling Prize Fellowship, Yale University. Offered to the top 30 entering graduate students in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (more then 8500 applicants). |
| Feb 2007 | Awarded Francis Upton Fellowship, Princeton University. The highest honor given to incoming graduate students in the sciences and engineering. Provides tuition, stipend, fees, and travel expenses. |
| September 2006 – May 2007 | Full Research Assistantship, Department of Computer Science, Yale University. |
| August 2005 – April 2006 | DAAD scholarship (German Academic Exchange Service). Full government scholarship to Yale University covering stipend, tuition, fees, and travel expenses. Candidates are chosen in a national competition. |
| November 2005 | Grand Prix d’Option, École Polytechnique, Paris, France. Best thesis award given annually to students that have made a major contribution to their research field during their four month research internship. |
| September 2004 – July 2005 | Erasmus scholarship (European Union). Exchange program scholarship. |
Professional Activities and Service
| January 2012 | Organization Chair, International Workshop on Mobile Aquamarine Systems, Singapore |
| September 2012 – August 2011 | CSAIL Student Committee (CSC), Elected Representative |
| Reviewer for: | Workshop on Wireless Networking for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (Wi-UAV) International Journal of Humanoid Robotics (IJHR) International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN) |
Teaching Experience
| September 2011 – December 2011 | Teaching Assistant, MIT, Cambridge, MA 6.142 – Robotics: Systems and Sciences II |
| January 2007 – April 2007 | Teaching Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, CT CS112b – Introduction to Programming |
| September 2006 – Dezember 2006 | Teaching Fellow, Yale University, New Haven, CT CS201a – Introduction to Computer Science |
| July 2005 | Course Assistant, ACACES 2005, L’Aquila, Italy Assisted in preparation and gave one lecture of the simulation course at the HiPEAC International Summer School on Advanced Computer Architecture and Compilation for Embedded Systems. |
Professional Experience and Skills
| Software | Windows, Linux, OS X, ROS, Eclipse, Altium Designer, Solidworks, Xilinx ISE, Actel IDE, Word, PowerPoint, Excel |
| Programming: | MATLAB, Java, C/C++, Assembler (ARM, AVR, x86). Familiarity with Lisp, SML, OCaml, Haskell, Pascal, Basic |
| Fabrication: | PCB fabrication, soldering (iron, reflow, IR), milling and turning (manual and CNC), 3D printing, laser-cutting, water-jetting, molding |
| Foreign Languages: | German (native), Polish (native), French (fluent) |
Invited Talks
| June 2012 | Robust Robotics Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Algorithms and Systems for Underwater Observatories |
| May 2012 | Industrial Affiliates Program, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Optical Underwater Communication for Effective Data Transfer |
| May 2012 | Wireless Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Optical Underwater Communication for Effective Data Transfer |
| April 2012 | NETMIT Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Optical Underwater Communication for Effective Data Transfer |
| March 2012 | Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Stanford University Algorithms and Systems for Underwater Observatories |
| March 2012 | MERS Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Optical Underwater Communication for Effective Data Transfer |
| January 2012 | International Workshop on Mobile Aquamarine Systems, Singapore Optical Underwater Communication for Effective Data Transfer |
| January 2011 | Acoustic Research Lab (ARL), Singapore Optical Underwater Communication with AquaOptical |
| December 2009 | Hirose Fukushima Lab, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan AMOUR, AquaNodes, and AquaOptical |