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Pritam Dash is a cybersecurity researcher specializing in the safety and security of robotic vehicles (RVs) and autonomous cyber-physical systems. His work sits at the critical intersection of control systems, sensor security, and attack recovery, addressing one of the most pressing challenges in modern robotics: protecting autonomous vehicles from sophisticated physical attacks such as sensor spoofing and tampering. Dash's most influential contribution, "Out of Control" (2019, 45 citations), established foundational frameworks for detecting when robotic vehicles are compromised through sensor manipulation. Building on this, he developed PID-Piper (2021, 41 citations), a pioneering recovery framework that restores RVs to safe operation after physical attacks — moving the field meaningfully beyond detection alone. His research on stealthy attacks (2021, 35 citations) further exposed critical vulnerabilities in control-based intrusion detection systems, demonstrating that adversaries can bypass existing defenses. More recently, Dash has expanded his focus to swarm robotics security, with SwarmFuzz (2023) uncovering GPS spoofing vulnerabilities in drone swarms, and SpecGuard (2024) introducing specification-aware recovery mechanisms. Collectively accumulating over 150 citations, his body of work has significantly shaped how researchers and engineers approach resilience and security in autonomous robotic systems.