Brief CV (Resume)
Education
- 2021
Ph.D., Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
- Thesis — "Learning Latent Representations and Intrinsic Laws of Complex Systems"
- 2021
M.Sc., Electrical Engineering
University of Maryland, College Park
- 2017
B.Sc., Electrical and Computer Engineering (5-year Diploma)
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
- Thesis — "EEG and EMG Signals in Neuro-Robotic Systems"
Experience
- 2026 - now
Assistant Professor, TU Wien
Faculty of Informatics
- 2023 - 2026
Postdoc, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Division of Decision and Control Systems
- Advisor — Karl Henrik Johansson
- 2024 - 2025
Research Affiliate, Ericsson AB
Ericsson Research, Stockholm
- Joint Research Project (SSF IPD23-0019)
- 2022-2023
- 2019
Research Scientist Intern, Xerox PARC
System Sciences Lab, Palo Alto Research Center (PARC)
- Supervisors — Ion Matei and Johan de Kleer
- 2018
Research Scientist Intern, Bell Labs
Math & Algorithms Research Group, Nokia Bell Labs
- Supervisor — Iraj Saniee
- 2015-2017
Undergraduate Research Assistant, NTUA
Control Systems Lab, Mechanical Eng. Dept.
- Advisor — Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos
Funded Projects
- 2024
SSF IPD23-0019 [2-year, 2.2 MSEK]
Funded from the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research and Ericsson AB
- PI — Christos Mavridis
- Project Scope — "Hierarchical Communication-Aware Motion Planning"
- Collaboration with KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Ericsson AB
- 2025
VINNOVA 6G - International Research and Innovation Cooperation 2025-01681 [2-year, 3 MSEK]
Funded from VINNOVA
- Coordinator — Ericsson Research
- Project Scope — "Trustworthy 6G Positioning in Complex Environments. A Data-Driven Approach"
- Collaboration with KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, and Ericsson AB.
Invited Talks
- 2026
- Imperial College London, Hybrid Intelligence for Cyber-Physical-Human Systems.
- 2025
- TU Wien, Hybrid Intelligence for Cyber-Physical-Human Systems.
- Tutorial Session, European Control Conference 2025, Homotopy Optimization and Hybrid Learning for Inference and Control.
- Politecnico di Milano (PoliMi), Real-Time Hybrid System Identification and Learning-based Control.
- 2024
- Ocado Intelligent Automation, Stockholm, Hybrid Intelligence in Control and Automation.
- ATHENA Research Center, Greece, Real-time Hybrid System Identification for CPS Security and Control.
- Uppsala University, Sweden, Real-time Hybrid System Identification for CPS Security and Control.
- 2023
- IMDEA Software, Madrid, Progressive Learning for Inference, Verification, and Control of Cyber-Physical Systems.
- ECSE, RPI, Progressive Learning for Inference and Control in Cyber-Physical Systems.
- 2022
- MINDS, Johns Hopkins, Online Deterministic Annealing. Progressive Learning for Cyber-Physical Systems.
- KTH, Stockholm, Progressive Learning for Inference and Control in Cyber-Physical Systems.
- ESE, UPenn, Dynamic Learning for Intelligent Autonomous Systems.
- ECE, Rutgers, Dynamic Learning for Intelligent Autonomous Systems.
- 2021
- Maryland Robotics Center, UMD, Learning Latent Representations and Intrinsic Laws of Complex Systems.
Professional Service
- 2024
- Organizer, ACC 2024 Student Workshop on Security and Privacy of the Next-Generation Cyber-Physical Systems, IEEE Technical Committee on Security and Privacy
- Co-Chair, 'Identification I', IEEE ECC 2024
- Co-Chair, 'Optimization II', MED 2024
- Keynote Chair, Organizing Committee, Digital Futures Young Scientist Conference, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2023
- NSF Proposal Review Panellist, ENG/ECCS, 2023
- 2022
- Co-Chair, 'Learning', IEEE CDC 2022
- Co-Chair, 'Intelligent Data Processing From Sensors in Control and Decision Support Systems', MED 2022
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- Associate Editor, EUCA Conference Editorial Board, European Control Conference (ECC), 2024-2028.
- Journal Peer Reviewing — [TACON, Automatica, TCNS, DCDS-B], [NAHS]
- Conference Peer Reviewing — [CDC, ACC, ECC, MED], [ADHS], [ICRA, IROS], [ITSC]
Honors and Awards
- 2021
- Best Student Paper Award (1st place), IEEE ITSC
- ISR Outstanding Systems Engineering Graduate Student Award, UMD
- Ann G. Wylie Dissertation Fellowship [$15,000], UMD
- Future Faculty Program Fellowship, A. James Clark School of Engineering, UMD
- 2020
- Graduate School's Outstanding Research Assistant Award, A. James Clark School of Engineering, UMD
- 2018
- Qualcomm Innovation Fellowship US Finalist, San Diego, CA
- Gerontelis Foundation Scholarship [$5,000], MA
- 2017
- A. James Clark School of Engineering Distinguished Graduate Fellowship [$15,000], UMD
- 2010
- Great Moment for Education student excellence award [1,000€], EFG Eurobank, Greece
Patents
- 2019
- Patent No. US 11,188,617 B2; Method and network node for internet-of-things (IoT) feature selection for storage and computation; Nokia Technologies Oy.
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- Five (5) filed inventions with Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson.
External Engagement
- 2025 - now
eProgramma AB (e-programma)
Founder, CEO, Research & Development
- Software service company providing scheduling solutions for educational institutions.
- Supported by KTH Innovation
- Funded by Vinnova Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems.
- Website — eprogramma.com