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Aveek Das is a robotics researcher whose work has significantly advanced the fields of multi-robot coordination, autonomous navigation, and search-and-rescue systems. His most influential contributions center on developing frameworks and architectures that enable teams of robots to operate collaboratively in unstructured, unknown environments — work that has collectively garnered hundreds of citations and helped shape modern approaches to cooperative robotics. His 2006 paper on distributed search and rescue with robot and sensor teams (177 citations) and his foundational 2002 framework for multi-robot coordination (159 citations) established key principles for deploying autonomous robot teams in real-world scenarios. Complementing this, his 2005 work on cooperative control of robot formations (110 citations) introduced practical algorithms for coordinating nonholonomic mobile robots using range sensors, addressing challenges from reconnaissance to manipulation tasks. Das has also contributed to decentralized motion planning under sensing and communication constraints, obstacle detection using LiDAR and stereo vision, and vision-based autonomous urban navigation. His robust visual path-following research demonstrated reliable robot navigation in GPS-denied environments. Together, these contributions reflect a career dedicated to bridging theoretical robotics frameworks with practical, deployable autonomous systems — making his work essential reading for researchers in multi-robot systems and autonomous navigation.