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Antonio Soriano is a leading researcher in underwater robotics and wireless communications, with a focus on enabling cooperative autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) operations. His major contributions center on developing communication frameworks and protocols that address the unique challenges of underwater environments, where acoustic and RF links suffer from limited bandwidth and high latency. Soriano co-created UWSim-NET, an open-source simulation framework that allows researchers to model and test underwater wireless communications for multi-robot interventions—a tool that has garnered over 40 combined citations and become a standard for experimentation in the field. He also introduced the Underwater Multirobot Cooperative Intervention MAC (UMCI-MAC) protocol, a medium access control solution designed to coordinate communication among multiple underwater robots, enhancing real-time collaboration for tasks like archaeological object recovery and assembly. His work on wireless HROV control with compressed visual feedback, cited 14 times, demonstrates innovative approaches to overcoming bandwidth constraints. Soriano’s research, with papers accumulating over 70 citations, has been instrumental in advancing the feasibility of cooperative underwater interventions, making him a key figure in the intersection of robotics and underwater communications.