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Alyosha Molnar is a pioneer at the intersection of microelectronics, robotics, and biological sensing, whose work is helping to shrink autonomous systems to microscopic scales. His research spans the design of nanoliter-scale electronics, microrobotic control, and novel imaging techniques. Molnar’s most celebrated contribution is the development of the first microscopic robots with onboard digital control (2022, 73 citations), a breakthrough that demonstrated how tiny mechanical actuators could be guided by integrated information processing units to perform predesigned functions—a foundational step toward realizing the long-imagined concept of “smart dust.” He has also made significant advances in digital agriculture, designing miniature bee-mounted sensors and systems for inferring colony-level pollination activity (2021, 16 citations), enabling unprecedented environmental monitoring. In computational imaging, Molnar introduced “Depth Fields” (2015, 15 citations), a technique that extends light field methods to time-of-flight sensors, overcoming limitations in robust depth acquisition. His work on nanoliter-scale autonomous electronics (2021, 14 citations) further explores how CMOS scaling can enable vanishingly small, self-contained systems. With a career defined by pushing the boundaries of miniaturization and autonomy, Molnar’s research promises to revolutionize fields from healthcare to precision agriculture.