Stephanie Kemna

Stephanie Kemna is a Principal Researcher/Engineer at DNV in the Simulation Technologies team, as part of Group Research & Development. She obtained a BSc and MSc in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Groningen (2008, Netherlands), participated in the HiTecMasterclass (2008, TNO/Navy, Netherlands) and subsequently worked at the NATO STO Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation on software development and mission planning for autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) (2009-2012, Italy). She then pursued obtained a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southern California (USA, 2018), focusing on adaptive informative sampling using AUVs, and multi-robot strategies therefore. During her PhD, she also did internships with ATLAS Elektronik (Germany), the Army research lab (USA), and Amazon Robotics (USA). From 2018-2023, she worked first as a software developer, later as project manager and research manager at Maritime Robotics in Trondheim, a company that develops autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs). She has over 14 years of experience developing adaptive behaviors, autonomy and mission planning for aquatic robots, including AUVs and ASVs. Since 2023, she works at DNV as an AI researcher within the digital assurance program on topics related to smart testing of simulation models / digital twins, and on projects related to testing autonomous navigation systems for autonomous vessels.