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Stefan Jorgensen is a leading researcher in multi-robot routing under uncertainty, with a focus on risk-aware and survivable mission planning. His work addresses a critical challenge in robotics: how to deploy teams of robots in hazardous environments where traversing edges carries a risk of failure. Jorgensen’s key contributions center on the "Team Surviving Orienteers" problem, which he introduced in two highly cited 2017 papers (31 and 26 citations, respectively). These works formalize the problem of maximizing the expected number of visited nodes while guaranteeing that each robot’s path satisfies a survival probability constraint. He extended this framework with the "risk-sensitive coverage problem" (6 citations), which tackles multi-robot routing under service level and survival constraints, ensuring that each node is visited with a specified probability by at least one robot. Jorgensen’s work is notable for its rigorous mathematical modeling of failure risks and its practical implications for search-and-rescue, exploration, and surveillance missions. His research provides foundational tools for designing robust, failure-tolerant robotic teams, making him a key figure in the field of risk-aware autonomous systems.