Education

• April 2016 – July 2021: Doctor of philosophy in robotics, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece.
  Dissertation: Online appearance-based place recognition and mapping algorithms for autonomous robot navigation.
  Supervisor: Antonios Gasteratos, Professor.
• October 2015 – July 2016: Certificate of pedagogical and teaching competence, School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, Kozani, Greece.
  Thesis: The collaborative approach of teaching in contemporary school.
  Supervisor: Marios Koutsoukos, Ph.D.
• October 2013 – February 2015: Master of science in mechatronics, Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia (now University of Western Macedonia), Kila Kozanis, Greece.
  Thesis: Mechatronic study and simulation of a flexible robotic hand.
  Supervisor: Georgios Fragulis, Professor.
• October 2005 – December 2010: Bachelor of science in automation engineering, Technological Education Institute of Chalkida (now National and Kapodistrian University of Athens), Phachna, Greece.
  Thesis: Signal transmission using frequency modulation.
  Supervisor: Panagiotis Vournas, Professor of application of electronics.

Teaching

During the previous years, I taught as an adjunct lecturer the courses of:

Department of Supply Chain Management, International Hellenic University

• February 2022 – June 2022, Spring semester: Warehouse organization and management II

According to my responsibilities in my Ph.D. program, I have co-taught the following courses:

• February 2020 – June 2020, Spring semester: Electronics (6th semester of studies).
• October 2019 – February 2020, Fall semester: Mechatronics (7th semester of studies), Automatic control systems (7th semester of studies).
• February 2019 – June 2019, Spring semester: Electronics (6th semester of studies).
• October 2018 – February 2019, Fall semester: Mechatronics (7th semester of studies).
• February 2018 – June 2018, Spring semester: Electronics (6th semester of studies).
• October 2017 – February 2018, Fall semester: Mechatronics (7th semester of studies).
• February 2017 – June 2017, Spring semester: Electronics (6th semester of studies), Computer vision (Elective course).
• October 2016 – February 2017, Fall semester: Mechatronics (7th semester of studies).

During my master’s studies, I have taught a class of adults in a program provided by the youth and lifelong learning foundation:

• December 2014 – March 2015: Website development

Supervision of diploma theses

According to my responsibilities in my Ph.D. program, I have co-supervised the following diploma theses:

• Panagiotis Giannis, June 2021: Loop closure detection using scale restrictive and clustered visual features.
• Dimitra Zotou, April 2019: Study and construction of a prototype controlling device for the awning’s state through the usage of internet of things technology.
• Stavros Moutsis, March 2019: Digital image processing on the development board DE1-SoC.
• Konstantinos Voulgaridis, August 2018: Internet of thing technology for controlling the room’s conditions during medicines’ transportation.
• Kleopatra Markou, July 2018: Comparative study of feature detection algorithms for visual place recognition.

Conferences/Workshops organization

• MED22 – Organizing committee for Mediterranean Conference On Control And Automation Workshop: Active methods in autonomous navigation – 2022