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Anwar Quraishi is a robotics researcher specializing in autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), multi-robot systems, and underwater navigation and communication. His work addresses some of the most persistent challenges in underwater robotics, particularly the inability to use GPS or radio communication beneath the surface, developing innovative solutions that make AUV deployment more practical and accessible in real-world environments. Quraishi's most significant contributions center on designing miniature, agile, and easily deployable AUV systems capable of environmental sensing and collaborative operation. His work on acoustic navigation systems and flexible multi-vehicle coordination frameworks — each garnering 6 citations — has advanced the field's ability to deploy teams of robots for tasks like environmental sampling and feature tracing. His 2022 research on distributed cooperative localization further refined how robot teams can efficiently share positional information without relying on centralized infrastructure. Beyond individual vehicle navigation, Quraishi has explored multi-robot collaborative mapping and robustness to connectivity loss — critical concerns for swarm robotics in search-and-rescue scenarios. His online parameter estimation framework for surface and underwater vehicles addresses the crucial need for accurate inertial localization between external position updates. With a focused and growing body of work, Quraishi represents an emerging voice in practical, field-deployable underwater robotics research.