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Yuman Gao is a pioneering robotics researcher whose work fundamentally advances autonomous multi-robot systems in extreme environments. His primary research areas span swarm robotics, multi-robot coordination under communication constraints, neuromorphic vision, and active 3D reconstruction. Gao’s landmark 2022 paper, “Swarm of micro flying robots in the wild,” with 539 citations, demonstrates the first-ever deployment of drone swarms in dense, GPS-denied forests—solving the formidable challenge of navigating narrow corridors and unknown obstacles while maintaining swarm cohesion. His “Meeting-Merging-Mission” framework (60 citations) provides a complete solution for large-scale exploration when communication is limited in bandwidth and range, introducing lightweight environment representations for efficient cooperation. Gao also innovated in perception with his microsaccade-inspired event camera (25 citations), enabling high-dynamic robotics applications by overcoming traditional event cameras’ failure to capture object edges. His GS-Planner framework (22 citations) leverages Gaussian splatting for active high-fidelity reconstruction, achieving realistic results beyond prior methods. With recent surveys on cooperative exploration and work on terrestrial-aerial bimodal vehicles, Gao continues shaping the future of autonomous systems in the wild.