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Hashini Senaratne is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of human-robot interaction and collaborative intelligence, with a primary focus on situational awareness in human-robot teams. Her work establishes foundational frameworks for understanding how human operators maintain conscious knowledge of team states, actions, and environmental contexts during collaboration—a critical factor for successful human-robot teaming. Senaratne's most impactful contribution, "A Framework for Dynamic Situational Awareness in Human–Robot Teams: An Interview Study" (7 citations), provides empirical insights into operator cognition, while her subsequent work on measuring situational awareness latency (2 citations) addresses key methodological biases in SA estimation. She has also advanced human-robot collaboration through her synthesis of perspectives on empowering people in these partnerships (3 citations). Beyond teaming dynamics, Senaratne developed SiFEB, an interactive robot playmate designed to nurture STEM engagement in children (5 citations), and demonstrated innovative applications of field robots combined with large foundation models for event-triggered scientific investigation. Her research uniquely bridges theoretical frameworks with practical implementations, making significant contributions to both the cognitive and social dimensions of human-robot interaction.