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Sasikumar Punnekkat is a leading researcher in dependable and safety-critical systems, with a primary focus on the intersection of safety engineering, real-time systems, and model-based development. His work addresses the critical challenge of ensuring safety in increasingly complex, collaborative, and autonomous systems. A key contribution is his pioneering approach to safety-oriented flexible design for Autonomous Mobile Robot (AMR) systems, enabling granular, software-based safety mitigations that do not compromise mobility or scalability. He has also advanced the field by developing novel modeling and safety analysis techniques for collaborative safety-critical systems using hierarchical colored Petri nets, a methodology crucial for verifying safety in domains like smart manufacturing and transportation. With over 20 citations for his foundational work on automatic generation and validation of legacy software models, Punnekkat’s research has demonstrated significant impact. His exploration of safety in fog-based industrial automation systems further underscores his ability to tackle emerging challenges in distributed, real-time control. Through these contributions, Punnekkat has established himself as a key figure in making next-generation autonomous and collaborative systems both safe and reliable.