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Sounak Maji is an emerging researcher specializing in wireless power transfer (WPT) systems, with a particular focus on capacitive wireless power transfer for autonomous and mobile robotic platforms. His work addresses one of the critical challenges in robotics and automation: enabling seamless, efficient charging without physical connectors or interruptions to operation. Maji's most significant contributions center on multi-MHz capacitive WPT systems designed for in-motion charging of mobile robots. His pioneering 2022 paper, which has garnered 17 citations, introduced an innovative upside-down charging configuration allowing robots to charge dynamically while moving beneath ceiling-mounted pads. Building on this, he developed high-power-density designs that carefully manage fringing electric fields to meet safety standards, accumulating 13 citations by 2023. More recently, his work has incorporated metasurface-based "metacouplers" to further reduce unwanted field exposure, and asymmetric coupler geometries to improve misalignment tolerance during dynamic charging scenarios. With a cumulative citation count exceeding 40 across just four publications, Maji's research is rapidly gaining recognition within the power electronics and robotics communities. His work represents a compelling intersection of electromagnetic design, power systems engineering, and autonomous systems, making him a researcher to watch in the growing field of wireless energy delivery.