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Karina A. Roundtree is a prominent researcher specializing in human-swarm interaction, human-robot teaming, and the design of transparent interfaces for collective robotic systems. Her work sits at the critical intersection of robotics, human factors, and visualization design, addressing how humans can effectively collaborate with and supervise large-scale robotic collectives composed of hundreds or thousands of distributed agents. Roundtree's most influential contribution, "Transparency: Transitioning From Human–Machine Systems to Human-Swarm Systems" (2019, 43 citations), established foundational frameworks for understanding transparency in human-swarm systems beyond idealized communication assumptions — a significant methodological advancement in the field. Her subsequent research has systematically explored how visualization strategies and interface designs shape human performance and decision-making when partnered with robotic collectives, as seen in her work on human-collective target selection and visualization transparency. Collectively, her publications reflect a coherent and growing research agenda focused on making complex emergent swarm behaviors interpretable and actionable for human operators — a challenge with real-world implications for disaster response, environmental monitoring, and infrastructure support. With over 79 cumulative citations, Roundtree's scholarship is shaping how researchers and designers approach the rapidly expanding field of human-swarm teaming.