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Debdoot Sheet is a leading researcher at the intersection of computer vision, robotics, and surgical data science. His work centers on enabling machines to learn continuously—a key challenge in lifelong robotic vision—and on developing intelligent systems for medical interventions. Sheet’s most-cited paper, from the IROS 2019 Lifelong Robotic Vision Challenge (12 citations), addresses the grand goal of building artificial agents that can autonomously cultivate understanding from experience, mirroring human learning. He has also made significant contributions to surgical tool tracking, with papers on retinal microsurgery (7 citations) and cataract surgery (5 citations) that employ deep neural architectures and convolutional networks over pyramidally decomposed frames. These works demonstrate his ability to translate foundational AI advances into precise, real-time clinical applications. Beyond his own publications, Sheet co-organized the IROS 2019 Lifelong Object Recognition Challenge, which attracted over 150 teams and produced the OpenLORIS benchmark dataset—a lasting resource for the community. His research not only pushes the boundaries of continual learning but also directly impacts patient care through smarter, safer surgical robotics.