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Irati Zamalloa Ugarte is a robotics researcher whose work sits at the intersection of real-time systems, robot communications, and cybersecurity. Based primarily on research conducted in 2018, her contributions have helped shape how the robotics community thinks about both the performance and the safety of modern robotic architectures. Zamalloa Ugarte's most influential work focuses on evaluating ROS 2.0 for real-time robotic applications, a study that has garnered 40 citations and remains a key reference for engineers deploying distributed robot systems. Complementing this, her analysis of the Linux communication stack for real-time robotics (24 citations) and her advocacy for Time-Sensitive Networking as a future standard for robot communications demonstrate a sustained commitment to making robotic systems faster and more reliable. Equally notable is her pioneering work in robot security. She co-developed the Robot Security Framework (RSF) and the Robot Vulnerability Scoring System (RVSS), offering the community standardized methodologies to assess and quantify robot-specific security risks — areas where traditional IT security tools fall short. Her Robotics CTF initiative further bridges the gap between cybersecurity practitioners and roboticists. With contributions spanning real-time communications, modular collaborative robots, and cloud-based training frameworks, Zamalloa Ugarte represents a rare interdisciplinary voice in modern robotics research.