Riki MacMillan, Graduate Researcher, Computer Science, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa, is this year’s winner of the ‘Bubba Cook award for Emerging Technology 2026’ for his insightful presentation: Scalable metric measurement of marine life with low-cost commodity hardware. He presented his research on September 9th at the Seafood and Fisheries Emerging Technologies (SAFET) Conference 2026, during the Panel “Emerging Technologies updates”. Presentations are forthcoming on the SAFET Team – YouTube channel.
Congratulations to Riki on this wonderful achievement!
Riki MacMillan is a graduate student in Computer Science at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and a Graduate Research Assistant at the CIRP (Computational Imaging and Robotic Perception) Lab. His research focuses on computer vision, 3D reconstruction, and vision-based measurement systems. His current work explores stereo and monocular vision methods for marine life measurement and 3D reconstruction, with broader interests in autonomous systems, drone-based sensing, and environmental monitoring.