Nicholas Rypkema is a Research Engineer in the Applied Ocean Physics and Engineering (AOP&E) Department at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI).  He received his Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Queensland (UQ) and was awarded the prestigious UQ University Medal for outstanding academic excellence.  From 2010 to 2013 Nick worked as a Research Engineer at the Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) in Sydney, Australia, where he first worked on Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs).  He received his S.M. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, and his Ph.D. in 2019, both from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (MIT/WHOI) Joint Program.  At MIT he conducted research on marine robot formation control, participated in the inaugural Maritime RobotX challenge, and performed Ph.D. work on the development of a novel single-beacon acoustic localization system for very low-cost, miniature AUVs.  His interests lie in acoustic localization, acoustic signal processing and algorithm development, multi-AUV autonomy, and robot navigation and platform development.