Newman ’s work on autonomous vehicle technology has led him to author 200 papers and garner over 15,000 citations . In his doctoral dissertation at the University of Sydney , Paul set out the fundamentals of the large-scale navigation problem SLAM , which would later become one of the most cited papers in the field at over 3000 citations . Following his PhD , Newman worked as a Navigation Engineer at Sonardyne International , UK , in 1999 and 2000 , where he wrote the navigation algorithms which underpinned operation of autonomous sub-sea vehicles dealing with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Deepwater Horizon oil spill
Paul Newman (engineer)