Evan Krell is a Geospatial Computer Science PhD student at Texas A & M University – Corpus Christi, where he has previously received an MS in Computer Science. His research interests are in autonomous marine vehicles (mission planning and onboard computer vision), coastal AI applications, and explainable AI. Projects include using metaheuristics and deep learning for efficient marine route planning, onboard classification of turbid underwater imagery for data-driven sampling and developing XAI techniques to explain models whose inputs are rasters with hundreds of highly correlated channels.

José is a Ph.D. student in the Geospatial Computing Science program at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, under Dr. Michael Starek. He has research experience in UAS Photogrammetry and GNSS techniques for georeferencing UAS imagery.

Marina Vicens-Miquel is a Geospatial Computer Science PhD Student at Texas A & M University – Corpus Christi under Dr. Medrano. Marina’s research focuses on using AI techniques to solve Geospatial computer science problems, typically using UAV Imagery. She had worked in flood detection from UAVs using recurrent neural networks (RNN), and UAV damage assessment using deep learning. She is currently working on wet / dry shoreline geo-detection by applying deep learning analysis to UAV Imagery. Prior to starting her PhD, Marina earned a double major BS in Computer Science and Mathematics and competed on the TAMUCC NCAA Women ‘s Tennis team.

Miranda White is a Coastal and Marine System Science PhD student at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Her research focuses on assessing and communicating variability, uncertainty, and trustworthiness of an AI coastal model that predicts cold temperatures in the local lagoon. She is working collaboratively with NCAR and TAMUCC AI scientists and local stakeholders to improve stakeholder decision-making concerning sea turtle and fisheries conservation efforts during extreme cold events. Miranda earned both her Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in Integrated Environmental Science at Bethune-Cookman University.

Katie Colburn is a graduate research assistant at the Conrad Blucher Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where she works on shoreline delineation. Katie is attending the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, pursuing her OTD Degree in Occupational Therapy.

Beto Estrada Jr. is a graduate research assistant at the Conrad Blucher Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science with a focus on information systems, and a minor in atmospheric science. He is now pursuing his masters in computer science. His research focuses on manipulating real-time Coastal Bend ocean conditions and prediction data and visualizing them through interactive charts for stakeholders to utilize.

Matthew Kastl is a graduate Research Assistant at the Conrad Blucher Insititute located at Texas A&M Corpus Christi. He is currently working towards a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science. Matthew’s contributions consist of helping to construct a camera array and data collection system. Using Sterio Vision Technology the array will be used to collect elevation information about a shoreline to later be used for AI training.