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Tien-Ruey Hsiang is a robotics researcher whose work spans two richly interconnected domains: swarm robotics coordination and vision-based autonomous robot navigation. He is perhaps best known for his foundational contributions to swarm dispersion algorithms, particularly his highly influential work on rapidly dispersing robot swarms in unknown environments, which has accumulated over 108 citations and remains a landmark reference in multi-robot systems research. This work addressed the critical challenge of minimizing makespan—the total time required for a swarm of primitive robots to cover an unknown grid-based region—yielding rigorous algorithmic solutions with practical implications for search, exploration, and coverage tasks. Beyond swarm coordination, Hsiang has made meaningful contributions to visual robot navigation, developing image sequence-based homing methods that enable robots to traverse piecewise linear routes using sparse waypoints and log-polar image transforms. His 2012 studies on multi-waypoint visual homing and fast robot homing approaches demonstrate a consistent commitment to practical, efficient autonomous navigation. His earlier work on multi-robot dispatching further reflects his broad interest in optimizing robot team performance in geographically constrained settings. Across these areas, Hsiang's research bridges theoretical algorithm design and applied robotics, making his work valuable reading for students studying autonomous systems, swarm intelligence, and robot perception.