Guy Williams received the Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering degree from The University of Sydney, in 1995, developing an interest in fluid dynamics and control systems, and the Ph.D. degree in antarctic physical oceanography led to an Arctic Research Voyage, in 2004, where he observed the ground-breaking deployments of the UK’s Autosub-II AUV. He has been a Polar Oceanographer, specializing in the use of autonomous platforms (including instrumented seals) to study the cryosphere. From 2012 to 2017, he led the deployment of AUVs and drones from Australian and US icebreakers to study Antarctic and Arctic sea-ice from above and below, through an ARC Future Fellowship, from 2013 to 2018. He was the Science Coordinator for the Antarctic Gateway Partnership’s Explorer-class AUV Program, in 2018, where he is currently the AMSL Lead. He is excited by the massive potential for autonomous platforms to survey challenging oceanic environments, filling data gaps that guarantee paradigm shifts in our understanding of the planet and ability to predict its future.