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Karthik Dharmarajan is a leading researcher at the intersection of cloud robotics, surgical automation, and robot learning. His work addresses fundamental challenges in deploying capable robotic systems across distributed and resource-constrained environments. Dharmarajan’s most impactful contribution is the **FogROS2** platform (38 citations), which enables robots to offload computation to cloud and fog resources using ROS 2, dramatically expanding onboard capabilities. He extended this with **FogROS2-SGC** (19 citations), providing secure global connectivity for robot fleets. In surgical robotics, Dharmarajan developed **Orbit-Surgical** (27 citations), a high-fidelity simulation framework for learning surgical dexterity, and pioneered automated vascular shunt insertion using the da Vinci Research Kit (dVRK), with a trimodal framework (5 citations) for local, remote, or autonomous supervision. His **Fleet-DAgger** work (8 citations) scales human supervision for robot fleet learning, while his **digital twin framework** (13 citations) enables resilient telesurgery under variable network quality. More recently, he introduced **BOMP** for bin-optimized motion planning in logistics and **Mirage** for zero-shot cross-embodiment policy transfer. With over 120 total citations and a clear trajectory from cloud infrastructure to surgical autonomy, Dharmarajan is shaping the future of accessible, intelligent, and reliable robotic systems.