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Baxi Chong is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of biological locomotion, robotics, and geometric mechanics, with a particular focus on understanding how animals and robots navigate complex terrestrial environments. His work spans limbless locomotion in snake-like and worm-like systems, multi-legged locomotors inspired by myriapods and lizards, and the fundamental physical principles governing movement across challenging substrates including granular media and cluttered terrain. Chong's most celebrated contributions reveal elegant simplicities underlying seemingly complex locomotion strategies. His research demonstrates how mechanical intelligence — the passive interplay between body mechanics and environment — can dramatically simplify active neural control in limbless systems (57 citations), and how body-wave coordination enables surprisingly generalizable self-propulsion across sand and solid substrates (48 citations). His geometric mechanics framework has proven especially influential, providing unified theoretical tools applicable to quadrupedal back-bending, lizard "terrestrial swimming," and multi-legged robots navigating noisy landscapes. Beyond biological insight, Chong's work has concrete engineering impact, yielding practical control frameworks for hybrid soft-hard myriapod robots and sidewinding locomotors (37 and 27 citations respectively). With over 360 cumulative citations across a young career, his research is rapidly shaping next-generation locomotion strategies for search-and-rescue robotics and autonomous systems operating in unstructured environments.