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Sruti Gan Chaudhuri is a prominent researcher in the field of distributed computing and autonomous mobile robotics, with a particular focus on coordinating swarms of robots operating under highly constrained conditions. Her work addresses some of the most challenging problems in multi-robot systems, including gathering, circle formation, leader election, and mutual visibility — all within settings where robots may be asynchronous, oblivious, or physically non-trivial ("fat" robots with measurable size). Among her most celebrated contributions is research on luminous robots — autonomous agents equipped with externally visible lights — demonstrating how persistent color-based signaling can overcome the critical problem of obstructed visibility without collisions. Her 2016 paper on mutual visibility by luminous robots has garnered 95 citations, establishing it as a landmark contribution to the field. She has also made significant advances in fault-tolerant gathering under one-axis agreement and coordinating robots with limited or nonuniform visibility. Collectively, her publications have accumulated over 330 citations, reflecting their strong influence on researchers designing reliable, decentralized algorithms for autonomous robot systems. Her body of work is essential reading for anyone exploring the theoretical foundations of swarm robotics and distributed coordination.