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Mostafa Wahby is a pioneering researcher at the intersection of swarm robotics, biohybrid systems, and autonomous collective behavior. He is perhaps best known for his central role in the **Flora Robotica** project, a groundbreaking research initiative exploring symbiotic societies of robots and living plants capable of growing architectural structures. This work, which has accumulated over 62 citations, sparked a novel interdisciplinary field that blends evolutionary robotics, plant biology, and distributed artificial intelligence to engineer living buildings and bio-hybrid infrastructure. Wahby's contributions extend beyond plant-robot hybrids into core swarm robotics challenges. His research addresses collective change detection, adaptive swarm behavior under dynamic conditions, and scalable self-organizing architectures — including his recent work on Self-Organizing Nervous Systems (SoNS), which enables robot swarms to autonomously form and reconfigure hierarchical structures. He has also advanced open-source UAV platforms for swarm research, broadening accessibility to the field. With publications spanning evolutionary control of natural plant growth, self-organized construction with continuous materials, and industrial swarm robotics applications, Wahby has consistently demonstrated the transformative potential of decentralized, bio-inspired systems. His cumulative citation impact reflects a researcher whose ideas genuinely reshape how scientists conceive of the boundary between living and artificial systems.