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Jesus Tordesillas is a leading roboticist whose work pushes the boundaries of autonomous navigation in the most challenging environments. His research centers on high-speed trajectory planning, state estimation, and resilient autonomy for aerial and ground robots operating in unknown, perceptually-degraded settings. Tordesillas is best known for developing **FASTER**, a fast and safe trajectory planner for UAVs that guarantees collision-free flight even when exploring unmapped spaces—a critical capability for search-and-rescue and industrial inspection. This work has garnered over 157 citations and is widely recognized for its algorithmic elegance and real-world applicability. As a core member of **TEAM CoSTAR**, he contributed to the DARPA Subterranean Challenge, where his algorithms helped the team win Phase II of the competition, as documented in two highly cited papers (105 and 51 citations). More recently, Tordesillas has advanced continuous-time state estimation methods, publishing a comprehensive survey that synthesizes the field’s evolution. With a publication record spanning lidar-inertial navigation, off-road traversal over extreme terrains, and observability-aware planning, Tordesillas is shaping the future of robots that can operate reliably where GPS and vision fail.