I received the Diploma and the Ph.D. degrees both from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, in 2005 and 2010, respectively.

Currently I am a Post-Doctoral Researcher at Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CE.R.T.H.), Information Technologies Institute (I.T.I.).

My research is focused on Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Information/Multimedia Retrieval and Pattern Recognition.

I have received numerous grants, including, the best paper award (Artificial Intelligence) in ICAART 2010, the best paper award in ICCGI 2010 as well the best paper award in EUREKA 2010.

I am a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Cyprus Scientific and Technical Chamber since 2005. I am also an Establishing member of the “Greek Open Source Adherents’ Club”.

I have served as reviewer for scientific journals in the area of image processing, multimedia and fuzzy logic as well as member of Program Committees of several international conferences.

I have given numerous talks during conferences, at universities, and in the industry.

Currently, I am involved in the following EU/FP7 projects:

NOPTILUS – autoNomous, self-learning, OPTImal and compLete Underwater Systems.NOPTILUS main objective is to determine – fully-autonomously & in real-time – the AUVs’ trajectories/behavior that maximize situation awareness subject to the severe communication,  sensing & environmental limitations. (website) In the past I was involved in the following research projects:

1. sFLY – Swarm of Micro Fying Robots. The objective of the sFly project is to develop several small and safe helicopters which can fly autonomously in city-like enviroments and which can be used to assist humans in tasks like rescue and monitoring. (website)

Quotation from Larry Matthies, head of the vision group an NASA/JPL “NASA/JPL is one year behind sFly in vision-based navigation of MAVs” (January 2012)

 2. AGILE, rApidly-deployable, self-tuninG, self-reconfIgurabLE nearly-optimal control design for large-scale nonlinear systems (website)

3. FAST, Advanced Signal-Processing for Ultra-Fast Magnetic Resonance, and Training (website)