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Sariah Mghames is a pioneering roboticist whose work sits at the intersection of agricultural automation, human-robot interaction, and causal inference. Her research focuses on enabling robots to perceive, reason, and act intelligently in complex, dynamic environments—from fruit orchards to human-shared spaces. Her most impactful contribution, a comprehensive review on selective harvesting robots (68 citations), establishes her as a leading voice in addressing global food production challenges through robotic perception, design, and control. Mghames has also advanced the field of robotic mapping with her survey on maps of dynamics (27 citations), providing a foundational framework for spatial understanding. Her technical innovations include a compact soft articulated parallel wrist for grasping in narrow spaces (24 citations) and a spherical active joint for humanoids (15 citations), demonstrating her ability to bridge hardware design and practical application. More recently, she has pioneered causal discovery methods for predicting human spatial interactions, with her CAnDOIT framework (2024) enabling robots to learn cause-and-effect relationships from time-series data. Her work on haptic-guided shared control (12 citations) and neuro-symbolic human motion prediction further underscores her commitment to safe, intuitive human-robot collaboration. With a growing body of work that spans hardware, perception, and reasoning, Mghames is shaping the future of autonomous systems that work alongside people.