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Golnaz Habibi is a robotics researcher whose work spans multi-robot systems, swarm manipulation, distributed control, and human-robot interaction. She is best known for her foundational contributions to collective transport and large-scale robot coordination, exploring how groups of simple robots can accomplish complex tasks without sophisticated individual capabilities. Her highly cited 2013 papers on massive uniform manipulation (97 citations) and collective transport (94 citations) drew inspiration from ant colonies to develop practical frameworks enabling robot swarms to move irregular objects cooperatively — with direct applications in agriculture, construction, and disaster relief. Her subsequent work refined these ideas through distributed centroid estimation and motion controllers (60 citations) and distributed path planning algorithms, demonstrating both theoretical rigor and experimental validation. Earlier in her career, Habibi contributed innovative path planning methods using binary integer programming for 2D and 3D environments, establishing a strong algorithmic foundation. More recently, she has expanded into competitive human-robot interaction, investigating embodied agents in physical game-play scenarios. With over 400 cumulative citations, her research bridges swarm robotics theory and real-world implementation, making her work essential reading for students interested in scalable multi-robot systems and intelligent robot coordination.