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Stewart Jamieson is a robotics researcher pushing the boundaries of autonomous exploration in complex, unstructured environments. His work centers on developing intelligent, adaptive robotic systems for environmental monitoring, with a particular focus on underwater ecosystems. Jamieson’s major contribution is the CUREE (Curious Underwater Robot for Ecosystem Exploration) project, which introduces a novel framework for autonomous, curiosity-driven exploration of coral reefs and other marine habitats. This system, which has garnered 22 citations, moves beyond static surveys by enabling a robot to actively seek out scientifically relevant observations, capturing the full complexity of reef interactions. He has also advanced co-robotic systems for bandwidth-limited environments, where his POMDP-based formulation for active reward learning (14 citations) allows robots to prioritize data collection and communication with human operators. Additionally, his work on multi-robot distributed semantic mapping tackles the challenge of enabling teams of robots to build shared, meaningful representations of unfamiliar environments without prior training. Through these innovations, Jamieson is equipping robots with the curiosity and intelligence needed to become true partners in scientific discovery, from the depths of the ocean to remote terrestrial frontiers.