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Jean-Pierre de la Croix is a robotics and autonomy researcher whose work spans multi-agent systems, planetary exploration, and human-robot interaction. Best known for his contributions to autonomous multi-robot coordination, de la Croix has made significant strides in enabling teams of robots to operate collaboratively in challenging and previously unmapped environments. His work on the CADRE lunar technology demonstration (20 citations) exemplifies this, advancing cooperative autonomy for rover teams destined for the Moon's surface, while his research on inter-robot range measurements in pose graph optimization (19 citations) addresses critical localization challenges in planetary exploration scenarios. Beyond space robotics, de la Croix has contributed to maritime autonomy through the CARACaS multi-agent system for unmanned surface vehicles (19 citations) and explored novel human-swarm interaction paradigms, including the inventive use of deformable clay as a swarm control interface (17 citations) and formal control Lyapunov function guarantees for human-swarm systems (11 citations). His reach extends into education, with a widely recognized flipped-classroom approach to controls education built around a MOOC (37 citations). With contributions touching lunar radio telescopes, Enceladus exploration concepts, and distributed Martian computing, de la Croix represents a versatile and imaginative voice in next-generation autonomous systems research.