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Vedant Chandra is a key figure in the era of large-scale astronomical surveys, with his primary research focus on pioneering panoptic spectroscopy. His major contribution is his leadership and authorship on the foundational papers for the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V), the first all-sky, multi-epoch, optical-to-infrared spectroscopic survey. Chandra’s work has been instrumental in defining how SDSS-V maps the sky using multi-object spectroscopy (MOS) across telescopes in both hemispheres, including the 2.5-meter Sloan Foundation Telescope at Apache Point Observatory. His most cited paper, "Sloan Digital Sky Survey. V. Pioneering Panoptic Spectroscopy" (2025), has already garnered 25 citations, reflecting the immediate and significant impact of this work on the astronomical community. By establishing the technical and scientific framework for this unprecedented survey, Chandra is enabling transformative studies of stellar evolution, galactic dynamics, and the time-variable universe. His research represents a monumental step forward in our ability to conduct comprehensive, simultaneous observations across the entire sky and electromagnetic spectrum.