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Grace Lim is a pioneering roboticist and space exploration engineer whose work bridges multi-agent autonomy and planetary science. Her primary research areas include cooperative multi-robot systems, autonomous mission planning, and planetary surface operations—with a focus on enabling teams of rovers and landers to work together without direct human intervention. Lim’s most impactful contribution is her leadership on the CADRE (Cooperative Autonomous Distributed Robotic Exploration) lunar technology demonstration, a multi-agent autonomy mission slated to land three rovers and a base station at the Moon’s Reiner Gamma region. Her 2024 paper on this work, with 20 citations, outlines how the team will autonomously explore and map the lunar surface. She also contributed to NASA’s InSight Mars mission, where her 2021 paper on site tilt and lander transfer functions (13 citations) helped characterize seismic noise sources on Mars, and she played a key role in the robotic arm anomaly recovery for the HP³ heat probe. Lim’s 2017 work on the Mission Modeling, Planning, and Execution Module (M2PEM) provides a user-friendly graphical framework for designing and executing multi-vehicle missions, extending BPMN 2.0 for robotics. With over 57 total citations, Lim is shaping the future of distributed autonomous exploration on the Moon and Mars.