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Alex Couture-Beil is a robotics researcher whose work bridges multi-robot coordination and intuitive human-robot interaction. His key research areas include adaptive energy management for robot teams and vision-based human-swarm interfaces. In his most cited work, "Adaptive mobile charging stations for multi-robot systems" (46 citations), Couture-Beil tackled the critical challenge of optimizing docking station placement for mobile robots performing transportation tasks. He demonstrated that in non-stationary environments, the optimal charging location shifts over time—a finding that directly impacts the efficiency and autonomy of long-duration multi-robot missions. Couture-Beil also pioneered a novel computer vision system that allows a human to select and command individual robots within a group simply by looking at them and using motion-based gestures. This work, published across multiple venues (totaling over 50 citations), introduced a non-verbal, real-time communication channel that makes multi-robot control more natural and accessible. By combining adaptive resource management with intuitive human-robot interfaces, Couture-Beil has contributed foundational ideas to the fields of swarm robotics and human-robot collaboration.