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Rachel Marlow is a robotics and ocean engineering researcher whose work centers on the design, development, and deployment of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) for scientific exploration in some of the world's most challenging environments. Her contributions span hardware design, software architecture, and multi-sensor data systems, with a particular focus on enabling robotic access to extreme and previously unreachable ocean regions. Marlow's most-cited work, the AURORA dataset paper (2022, 21 citations), provides a valuable multi-sensor resource advancing AUV-based ocean research. Her design contributions to the Autosub 2000 Under Ice project (2020, 19 citations) reflect her commitment to polar exploration, developing a capable work-class AUV to investigate ice-covered seas critical to understanding global climate systems. Through the OCEANIDS programme (2018), she helped shape next-generation maritime autonomous systems engineered for long-range, long-endurance missions in hazardous conditions. Her work on the NOCS On-Board Control System highlights her investment in standardized software architectures essential for scalable marine robotics, while her obstacle avoidance research further demonstrates a commitment to operational safety in complex underwater terrain. Collectively, her research strengthens humanity's capacity to explore and understand the deep ocean.