About the Authors
Anil Mahtani is a computer scientist who has dedicated an important part of his
career to underwater robotics. He rst started working in the eld with his master
thesis, where he developed a software architecture for a low-cost ROV. During the
development of his thesis, he also became the team leader and lead developer of
AVORA, a team of university students that designed and developed an autonomous
underwater vehicle for the Students Autonomous Underwater Challenge – Europe
(SAUC-E) in 2012. That same year, Anil Mahtani completed his thesis and his MSc in
Computer Science at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and then became
a Software Engineer at SeeByte Ltd, a world leader in smart software solutions for
underwater systems. In 2015, he joined Dell Secureworks as a Software Engineer,
where he applies his knowledge and skills toward developing intrusion detection
and prevention systems.
During his time at SeeByte Ltd, Anil Mahtani played a key role in the development
of several semi-autonomous and autonomous underwater systems for the military
and oil and gas industries. In those projects, he was heavily involved in the
development of autonomy systems, the design of distributed software architectures,
and low-level software development and also contributed in providing Computer
Vision solutions for front-looking sonar imagery. At SeeByte Ltd, he also achieved
the position of project manager, managing a team of engineers developing and
maintaining the internal core C++ libraries.
