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Pawel Malysz is a robotics and control systems researcher whose work has fundamentally advanced the theory and practice of teleoperation — the remote control of robotic systems. His research spans bilateral and multilateral teleoperation, kinematically redundant robotic manipulators, and semi-autonomous control frameworks, with particular emphasis on bridging the gap between human operators and complex robotic systems in challenging environments. Among his most significant contributions is his pioneering development of asymmetric teleoperation frameworks, where master and slave robots differ in their degrees of mobility — a practically important but theoretically demanding problem. His kinematic control framework (2011, 67 citations) and trilateral control approaches enabled more flexible and capable remote manipulation than previously possible. Equally influential is his work on nonlinear force/position mappings (2009, 67 citations), which redefined transparency objectives in bilateral teleoperation and demonstrated meaningful improvements in soft-tissue stiffness discrimination — directly relevant to robotic surgery applications. Malysz further extended teleoperation to cooperative multi-master/single-slave configurations and validated these frameworks through rigorous human factors experiments involving mobile twin-arm manipulators. His body of work, accumulating over 280 citations, represents a sustained and impactful contribution to intelligent robotic teleoperation, with clear implications for surgical robotics, hazardous environment manipulation, and human-robot collaboration.