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Anelia Angelova is a prominent researcher at the intersection of computer vision, robotics, and deep learning, whose work spans autonomous navigation, robotic manipulation, and efficient neural network design. She first gained recognition through her early contributions to planetary robotics, developing vision-based systems for terrain classification and slip prediction that informed Mars rover navigation — work that remains foundational in field robotics with over 150 citations. Her research on learning traversability from visual information helped lay the groundwork for intelligent autonomous vehicles operating in unstructured environments. Angelova's impact expanded dramatically with her 2015 paper on real-time robotic grasp detection using convolutional neural networks, now cited over 900 times, which demonstrated that end-to-end deep learning could replace complex multi-stage pipelines for manipulation tasks. Her 2019 work on unsupervised monocular depth prediction (491 citations) further advanced robot perception by eliminating the need for expensive depth sensors. More recently, she has tackled challenging problems such as 3D pose estimation for transparent objects and designing computationally efficient video understanding networks for resource-constrained devices. Across her career, Angelova has consistently pushed the boundaries of practical, deployable AI for real-world robotic systems.