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Gabriel Cruz is a robotics and artificial intelligence researcher whose work centers on multi-robot coordination, probabilistic decision-making, and assistive robotics. He is best known for his foundational contributions to decentralized control of robot teams operating under uncertainty, particularly through his development and application of Decentralized Partially Observable Markov Decision Processes (Dec-POMDPs) and the MacDec-POMDP framework. His 2015 paper on planning for decentralized multi-robot control has garnered 88 citations, while his policy search work for multi-robot coordination has accumulated an additional 84 citations across related publications, establishing him as a notable voice in cooperative robotics planning. Cruz's research tackles real-world challenges such as uncertain sensing, stochastic environments, and communication limitations — barriers that must be overcome for robots to function reliably in unstructured settings. His 2018 work on robot-enabled support of daily activities in smart home environments, his most cited paper with 110 citations, demonstrates a meaningful pivot toward human-centered applications, exploring how intelligent robots can enhance quality of life. He has also explored lifelong learning techniques to help robots adapt to physical degradation over time. Collectively, his work bridges theoretical probabilistic frameworks with practical, deployable robotic systems.