Martin Amice is an embedded electronics engineer at the Department of Technology Research and Development at Ifremer. He participates in the profiling float design. He has been involved in various operational oceanography projects and embedded systems.

João Tasso de Figueiredo Borges de Sousa is a Professor at the ECE Department of Porto University and the head of the Laboratório de Sistemas e Tecnologia Subaquática – LSTS. He holds a PhD and an MSc in Electrical Engineering. His research interests include multi-domain unmanned vehicles, planning/execution control for networked vehicle systems, and applications to the ocean sciences, security, and defense. He was the chief scientist for the 2018 Schmidt Ocean Institute cruise Exploring Fronts with Multiple Robots. He is an Associate Editor of the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering and has authored over 400 publications.