Mar 2021 - Now Research Scientist
Samsung AI Center, Cambridge, UK
Oct 2016 - Aug 2021 Ph.D. in Embedded Deep Learning Systems for Robot Visual Intelligence
Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
May-Oct 2020 Research Intern
Samsung AI Center, Cambridge, UK
May-Aug 2019 Emerging Technologies Research Intern
Arm Research, Arm Ltd, Cambridge, UK
Sep 2015 - Aug 2016 Research Assistant
Robotics Group, Mechanical Engineering Department, University of Patras, Greece
Sep 2014 - Aug 2016 Project Lead/Manager
Robotics Club, School of Engineering, University of Patras, Greece
Sep 2014 - Mar 2016 Undergraduate Research Assistance
High-Performance Computing Lab, Computer Eng. and Informatics Dept., University of Patras, Greece
Sep 2010 - Mar 2016 MEng in Computer Engineering and Informatics (ranked 1st of Class)
Computer Engineering and Informatics Dept., University of Patras, Greece
Sep 2021 Elected Associate Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy
In recognition of Professional Practise and commitment to excellence in teaching.
Oct 2016 - Sep 2021 EPSRC Research Funding
Scholarship for my PhD studies under the HiPEDS CDT.
Dec 2018 TEE-TCG Award of Academic Excellence
Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE-TCG)
Dec 2016 Limmat Stiftung Award of Academic Excellence
Limmat Stiftung Foundation of Zurich
Jan 2020 3rd place in Poster Competition
IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, UK&I Conference 2020, Manchester, UK
Apr 2016 1st place in Line-following Category (with UPatras Robotics Club)
Instabul Techical University Robot Olympics (ITURO) 2016, Instabul, Turkey
Dec 2015 1st place in Enhanced Line-following Category (with UPatras Robotics Club)
Robotex 2015 Competition, Tallinn, Estonia
Dec 2015 2nd place in HiPC Intel Xeon Phi Programming Challenge
IEEE Int. Conf. on High Performance Computing (HiPC) 2015, Bangalore, India
Academic Services
2024 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV)
2024 Int. Conf. on Machine Learning (ICML)
2024 IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
2024 Int. Conf. on Learning Representations (ICLR)
2023 Int. Conf. on Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems (ROBOVIS)
2023 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS)
2023 Int. Conf. on Learning Representations (ICLR)
2023 IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV)
2023 IEEE/CVF Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV)
2023 Int. Conf. on Machine Learning (ICML)
2022 Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems (NeurIPS) - Selected as a Top Reviewer
2022 European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV) - Selected as an Outstanding Reviewer
2022 IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
2022 IEEE/CVF Int. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
2022 Int. Conf. on Learning Representations (ICLR)
2022 European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par)
2021 IEEE/CVF Int. Conf. on Computer Vision (ICCV)
2021 IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
2021 IEEE/CVF Int. Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR)
2021 IEEE Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS)
2021 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
2021 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA)
2020 IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
2020 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
2020 IEEE Int. Conf. on Artificial Intelligence Circuits and Systems (AICAS)
2019 IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
Transactions on Robotics (T-RO), IEEE
Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), IEEE
Robotica, Cambridge University Press
Automatica, Elsevier
Automation in Construction, Elsevier
Journal of Systems Architecture, Elsevier
Ad Hoc Networks, Elsevier
Transactions on Industrial Informatics (TII), IEEE
Transactions on Circuits and Systems II (TCAS-II), IEEE
Apr 2018 & Jul 2019 Imperial Festival (representing Intelligent Digital Systems Lab, Imperial College London)
2-day festival with >20,000 visitors
Apr 2018 A day in the life of a drone developer
Live interview and Q&A with 70 prospective students at Imperial College London
Apr 2014 Patras Innovation Quest (representing the Robotics Club, University of Patras)
3-day technology expo with >7,000 visitors
2022, 2023 " Towards Embedded Robot Visual Intelligence"
Invited Lecture, Mobile Robotics Course, University of Edinburgh, UK
Aug 2020 "Embedded Deep Learning Systems for Visual Robot Intelligence"
Weekly Seminar Series (internal), Samsung AI Center, Cambridge, UK
Sep 2018 "Autonomous Drone Navigation with Deep Learning"
1st Robotics at Leeds Conference, Robotics Postgraduate Network, University of Leeds, UK
Apr 2015 "Autonomous Mobile Robots"
8th National Conf. of Electrical and Computer Engineering Students (ECESCON) 2015, Patras, Greece
Feb 2015 "Robotics and AI"
Robotics and 3D-printing event, IEEE UPatras Branch, University of Patras, Greece
2020 Advanced Digital System Design (GTA)
MSc Course, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
2019 - 2021 Digital Electronics and Computer Architecture (GTA + Examiner (orals) )
Year 1 Class & Lab, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
2018-2019 Analogue & Digital Integrated Circuit Design Lab (GTA)MSc Lab, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
2017 - 2019 Electronic and Information Engineering Lab & 1st-Year Project (GTA + Coursework Design + Examiner (orals) )
Year 1 Course & Lab, Dept. of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London, UK
2016 Programming of High-Performance Systems (UTA)
Elective Course, Computer Engineering and Informatics Dept., University of Patras, UK
2013 - 2015 Computer Architecture Lab (UTA)
Year 2 Lab, Computer Engineering and Informatics Dept., University of Patras, UK