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Nicholas Carlevaris‐Bianco is a leading researcher in long-term autonomous navigation, with a focus on simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) and robust perception. His most influential work, the University of Michigan North Campus Long-Term Vision and Lidar Dataset (548 citations), has become a foundational resource for the robotics community, providing a comprehensive, multi-sensor dataset that enables rigorous benchmarking of long-term autonomy algorithms. This contribution has significantly accelerated progress in persistent robot operation. Carlevaris‐Bianco has also made key advances in underwater robotics, developing a SLAM system for autonomous ship hull inspection that operates without acoustic beacons (75 citations). To address the challenge of changing environments, he pioneered a method for learning visual feature descriptors robust to dynamic lighting (74 citations), critical for outdoor deployment. Further technical contributions include the use of generic linear constraint node removal to manage computational complexity in long-term SLAM (27 citations) and a continuous-time estimation framework for dynamic obstacle tracking (14 citations). His work collectively addresses the core challenges of robust, long-duration autonomy across air, ground, and marine domains.