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Manash Kumar Kundu is a computer scientist whose research lies at the intersection of distributed computing and autonomous mobile robotics, with a particular focus on swarm coordination algorithms for self-organizing robot systems. His work primarily addresses foundational problems in multi-robot coordination — including mutual visibility, gathering, pattern formation, and circle formation — in challenging settings such as infinite grids, hypercubes, and polygonal enclosures, often under asynchronous and oblivious robot models that strip away assumptions about memory, communication, and synchronization. Among his most significant contributions is his work on mutual visibility by asynchronous robots on infinite grids, his most-cited paper with 24 citations, which advanced understanding of how robots can achieve line-of-sight with one another without centralized control. His 2019 work on optimal gathering in hypercubes (15 citations) and arbitrary pattern formation on infinite grids (10 citations) further established his contributions to fundamental distributed robotics theory. More recently, he has extended these investigations to opaque robot models and luminous robots, exploring how constrained visibility and light-based signaling affect coordination. His work on path-following robots using RFID technology additionally demonstrates applied robotics range. Collectively, Kundu's research provides rigorous algorithmic foundations for next-generation autonomous swarm systems.