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Tanmay Vilas Samak is an emerging researcher whose work sits at the intersection of autonomous driving, digital twin ecosystems, and intelligent transportation systems. He is best known for developing **AutoDRIVE**, a comprehensive, flexible, and integrated digital twin ecosystem designed to accelerate autonomous driving research and education. This flagship contribution, which has garnered 32 citations since its 2023 publication, provides a modular, open-access framework for prototyping and validating hardware-software components within complex transportation system-of-systems architectures. Samak has also made notable strides in control theory, particularly through his work on Koopman Extended Dynamic Mode Decomposition (EDMD) for optimal path-tracking control of Ackermann-steered vehicles, earning 8 citations for advancing data-driven modeling approaches in automotive engineering. His earlier technical report on the AutoDRIVE Simulator laid the foundational groundwork for these contributions, demonstrating a consistent trajectory of building scalable research infrastructure. More recently, his investigations into Sim2Real transfer methods address one of autonomy research's most pressing challenges — bridging the gap between simulation and real-world deployment. Together, his body of work reflects a commitment to making autonomous vehicle research more accessible, rigorous, and practically transferable.