Blair Thornton

Blair Thornton

General Chair

University of Southampton (adjunt University of Tokyo)

Professor of Marine Autonomy at Southampton, UK, with an adjunct post at the Institute of Industrial Science, The University of Tokyo, Japan. Blair has over 20 years of international research experience developing autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), sensors and algorithms for data interpretation. During this time he has spent over 500 days at sea fielding system his team have developed