CURRICULUM VITAE (last updated in 2013)

EDUCATION

  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
    Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, May 2000
    Advisor: Professor George A. Bekey
    Dissertation: "Robust Mobile Robot Localization: From Single-robot Uncertainties to Multi-robot Interdependencies''
    Minor: Computer Science
  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
    M.S. in Electrical Engineering, Dec. 1999
  • National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
    Diploma in Electrical Engineering, Sep. 1995 (GPA 9.2/10, rank top 2%)
    Advisor: Professor Spyros Tzafestas
    Thesis: "Robotic Assembly Planning based on Fuzzy Logic''

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
    Department of Computer Science & Engineering,
    • Professor, Sep. 2013 - Present
    • Associate Professor, Sep. 2008 - Present
    • Assistant Professor, Sep. 2002 - Aug. 2008
  • University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
    Digital Technology Center, Associate Director for Research, Jan. 2009-present
  • California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
    Division of Engineering and Applied Science, Postdoctoral Fellow, July 2000 - Aug. 2002
  • University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
    Robotics Research Laboratories, Graduate Research Assistant, Aug. 1995 - May 2000
    Integrated Media Systems Center, Graduate Research Assistant, Jan. 2000 - June 2000
    School of Engineering, Graduate Teaching Assistant, Aug. 1995 - May 1996
  • Kouvaris Ltd, Athens, Greece
    Member of the Technical Staff, Sep. 1989 - Aug.1995

HONORS AND AWARDS

  • Best Student Paper Award Finalist for paper [C109]. IEEE Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'13), Tokyo, Japan, Nov. 3-7, 2013
  • National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and Alexander von Humboldt Founda-
    tion (AvH), German-American Frontiers of Engineering (GAFOE) Symposium,
    co-organizer, with Prof. Karsten Berns, of the session "Robotics for Hazardous Environ-
    ments", Potsdam, Germany, March 29-31, 2012.
  • National Academy of Engineering (NAE), U.S. Frontiers of Engineering (USFOE)
    Symposium, invited participant, IBM Learning Center, Armonk, NY, Sep. 22-25, 2010.
  • King-Sun Fu Best Paper Award of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2009 for
    paper [J19].
  • Best Paper Award Finalist for paper [C65]. Robotics: Science and Systems Conference (RSS'09), Seattle, WA, June 28 - July 1, 2009.
  • Best Student Paper Award Finalist for paper [C64]. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'09), Kobe, Japan, May 12-17, 2009.
  • Guillermo E. Borja Award, Mar. 25 2009
  • NSF PECASE Award, FY 2007; Dec. 19 2008
  • Best Paper Award Finalist for paper [C43] (announcement: Oct. 31 2007)
    • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'06), Beijing, China, Oct. 9-15, 2006.
  • Best Paper Award for paper [J7], July 2007
    • Awarded by the Robotics Society of Japan to the best papers published in the journals Advanced Robotics and Journal of the Robotics Society of Japan within 2006
  • NSF CAREER award (Nov. 2006)
  • McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, University of Minnesota, July 1st 2006 - June 30th 2008.
    • "A career development award offered to the most promising tenure track assistant professors nominated by each department across the university''
  • Best Student Paper Award for paper [C40].
    • International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing (ICASSP'06), Toulouse, France, May 14-19, Signal Processing for Communications area
  • Best Reviewer Award, IEEE Int. Conference on Robotics and Automation, May 2006.
  • One NASA Center Best Award, Apr. 18, 2006.
    • "Given to the most deserving among those who have received an Individual/Team One NASA Peer Award in the past 12 months'' (Center: Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
  • One NASA Peer Award, Mar. 9, 2006.
    • Team award to the multi-institutional (JPL, NASA Ames, Carnegie Mellon University, and University of Minnesota) development team of the Coupled Layer Architecture for Robotic Autonomy (CLARAty). "In recognition of the accomplishment of creating and applying a software framework for integrating innovations in robotics into rapid insertion into NASA's flight missions''
  • NASA Tech Briefs Award, New Technology Report, Sep. 2004.
    • Based on paper [C27]
  • Myronis Fellow, University of Southern California, Aug. 1998-May 2000
  • Honorable Mention, AAAI Mobile Robot Competition, Novel Concepts in Human-Robot Interaction Event, 1999
  • Third Place, AAAI Mobile Robot Competition, Hors d'oeuvres Event, 1999
  • Graduated with highest honors (top 2%), National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece, Sep. 1995
  • IKY Fellow, Institute for State Fellowships, Athens, Greece, Sep. 1988-June 1989
  • Mathematical Society of Greece Award, Sep. 1987

RESEARCH GRANTS (link)

STUDENT ADVISING

  • Senior Member of CS graduate program (May 2006)
  • Affiliate Senior Member of EE graduate program (June 2006)
  • Students supervised (link)

COURSES (link)

TEACHING SEMINARS

  • Early Career Teaching Program, UMN, 2004-05

ADMINISTRATIVE COMMITTEES

  • Computer Engineering Curriculum sub-Committee Chair, 2007-09
  • PhD Revision Committee, 2005-06
  • Advisory Committee, 2004-05
  • Strategic Planning Committee, 2004-05
  • Written Preliminary Exam Committee, 2002-07
  • Graduate Admissions Committee, 2003-07

ACADEMIC SERVICE

  • Associate Editor, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, 2006 - 2010
  • Guest Editor, Autonomous Robots, "Special Issue on Analysis and Experiments in Distributed Multirobot Systems,'' with Prof. Nikolaos Papanikolopoulos, 17(1), July 2004.
  • Conference Workshop Organizer
    • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, "Multi-robot Search and Rescue: Current Challenges and Future Directions,'' with Prof. George Pappas and Prof. Sanjiv Singh, New Orleans, LA, April 26, 2004 (full day).
  • Conference Special Session Organizer
    • IEEE 11th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation, Session: "Advances in Multirobot Systems,'' with Prof. Kostas Kyriakopoulos, June 18 2003.
  • Conference Area Chair (RSS 2009)
  • Conference International Program Committee Member
    • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2004, 2006)
    • IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2001, 2007, 2008)
    • Robotics: Science and Systems (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008)
    • 2nd Canadian Conference on Computer and Robot Vision (CRV 2005)
    • 12th International Conference on Advanced Robotics (ICAR 2005)
    • AAAI International Conference on Autonomous Agents (2000)
  • Conference Workshop International Program Committee Member
    • Workshop on Visual Localization for Mobile Platforms, IEEE Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR 2008)
    • Workshop on Computer Vision Applications for the Visually Impaired (CVAVI), European Conference on Computer Vision (ECCV 2008)
    • Workshop on Reasoning with Uncertainty in Robotics (RUR), 19th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2005)
    • Workshop on Modeling and Control of Complex Systems (2005)
  • Conference Special Sessions Committee
    • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, San Diego, CA (IROS'07)
  • Journal Papers Reviewer
    • Autonomous Robots
    • IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine
    • IEEE Signal Processing Magazine
    • IEEE Transactions on Aerospace and Electronic Systems
    • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
    • IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks
    • IEEE Transactions on Robotics
    • IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation
    • IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing
    • IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics
    • International Journal of Computer Vision
    • International Journal of Robotics Research
    • Journal of Field Robotics
    • Journal of Guidance, Control, and Dynamics
    • Robotics and Autonomous Systems
    • SIAM Journal on Matrix Analysis and Applications
  • Conference Papers Reviewer
    • IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (2007)
    • IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (2007)
    • IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (2007)
    • Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (2006)
    • IEEE American Control Conference (2006)
    • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (1996-2009)
    • IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Robots (1996-2008)
    • 8th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (2005)
    • 5th Int. Workshop on the Algorithmic Foundations of Robotics (2002)
    • AAAI International Conference on Autonomous Agents (1999-2000)
  • Proposals Reviewer
    • National Science Foundation (NSF)
    • European Commission
    • Department of Defence (DoD-SCRA, ARO)
    • Leverhulme Trust (UK)
  • Conference Session Chair
    • IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (2002, 2004, 2006, 2007, 2008)
    • IEEE/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (2001, 2007, 2008)
    • International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (2008)
    • International Symposium on Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems (2000)

TECHNICAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP

  • Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE)
  • IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS)
 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  
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