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Current position
Founder and Director of Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML)
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Experience
- Freelance Academic & Consultant
Various Clients
2014-2019 | Worldwide - Full Professor & Robotics Institute Director
Innopolis University
2015-2017 | Kazan, Tatarstan - Senior Researcher
National Center for Scientific Research Demokritos
Feb 2013 - Aug 2016 | Athens Greece - Asst. Professor of Research
NYU Polytechnic School of Engineering
Jun 2012 - May 2015 | Brooklyn, New York - Asst. Professor of Engineering
United Arab Emirates University (UAEU)
2007-2011 | Al Ain, UAE - Founder and Director
Interactive Robots and Media Lab (IRML)
2007-2019 | Various Locations - Vice-Chair and ExeCom Member
Hellenic Artifical Intelligence Association
2013-2017 | Greece - Founding Chair
IEEE UAE Robotics and Automation Society
2012-2014 | United Arab Emirates - Future Challenges Contributor and Member
European Union Cognitve Systems Network (EUCog)
2010-2019 | European Union
Honors & awards
- Contribution to IEEE, UAE Award (2015)
- Best Paper Award, IEEE iCreate (2014)
- Schlumberger Pipe Inspection Robot, i-Design Award (2009)
- Microsoft External Research, 50K$ HRI Award (2008)
Education
- London School of Economics and Political Science
Certificate in Business, International Relations, and Political Economy
2018 - MIT Sloan School of Management
Certificate in Internet of Things
2017 - MIT School of Architecture and Planning
Certificate in Big Data & Business Analytics
2017 - Massachusetts Institute of Technology
PhD full time on-campus
2002-2007 | Cambridge, MA - University of California Los Angeles (UCLA)
Master of Science in Electrical Engineering
1999-2000 | Los Angeles, CA - Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Engineering Diploma in EECS
1993-1999 | Thessaloniki, Greece
Selected publications
- QTC3D: Extending the Qualitative Trajectory Calculus to Three Dimensions
Elsevier Journal of Information Sciences
2015 - A Review of Verbal and Non-Verbal Human-Robot Interactive Communication
Elsevier Journal of Robotics and Autonomous Systems pp. 22-35
2015 - Emotional Storytelling using Virtual and Robotic Agents
World Scientif ic International Journal of Humanoid Robotics Vol. 15
2018 - Collision detection, localization & classification for industrial robots with joint torque sensors
26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 838-843
2017 - The lbnSina Center: An Augmented Reality Theater with Intelligent Robotic and Virtual Characters
18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RoMAN09), pp. 681-686
2009 - Mental Imagery for a Conversational Robot
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics Part B, Vol. 34:3, pp. 1374-1383, IF: 4.88
2004