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Gajamohan Mohanarajah is a pioneering researcher in cloud robotics and autonomous systems, best known for his foundational contributions to the field of robot-cloud integration. His most celebrated work, the **Rapyuta** platform — published across landmark papers in 2013 and 2014 — introduced an open-source, Platform-as-a-Service framework that enables robots to offload computationally intensive tasks to the cloud, dramatically expanding the capabilities of resource-constrained robotic systems. These papers have collectively garnered over 420 citations, establishing Rapyuta as a cornerstone reference in cloud robotics literature. Building on this infrastructure, Mohanarajah extended his work to collaborative real-world applications, demonstrating in a 2015 paper (139 citations) how low-cost robots can perform real-time 3D mapping cooperatively through cloud-based parallel algorithms. His doctoral dissertation, *The Cloud, Paper Planes, and the Cube*, synthesizes these contributions alongside research into time-optimal trajectory generation for robotic manipulators, reflecting a broad but cohesive research vision. Mohanarajah's work has meaningfully shaped how the robotics community thinks about scalable, networked intelligence — making sophisticated robotic capabilities more accessible and demonstrating that the cloud can serve as a powerful extension of a robot's own onboard processing.