Assistant Professor Konstantinos Tsintotas is a roboticist who was born and raised in Katerini, Greece, where he lived for 18 years. Next, he moved to Chalkida, Greece, in 2005 and received his bachelor’s degree in 2010 from the department of automation, Technological Education Institute of Chalcis, (now National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) Psachna, Greece. During that period, he was involved in an internship program as an automation engineer at COOPER Industries – Menvier Univel Ltd. As he finished his military service in the supply and transportation corps of the Greek army in 2011, in 2013, he enrolled in the graduate program in mechatronics at the department of electrical engineering, Technological Education Institute of Western Macedonia (now University of Western Macedonia), Kila Kozanis, Greece, and received a master’s degree in 2015. His dissertation, entitled “Mechatronic study and simulation of a flexible robotic arm,” was supervised by Professor George F. Fragulis. The pedagogical and teaching competence certificate from the pedagogical training program, School of Pedagogical and Technological Education, Kozani, Greece, followed in 2016.

Alongside his studies, during the biennium 2015-2016, he was employed as an automation engineer by the Zalikas – Liontas construction company and as an adult educator by the “youth and lifelong learning foundation” in Katerini, Greece. His involvement in the industry gave rise to a deep interest in robotics, which motivated him to follow the course for a doctoral degree under Prof Antonios Gasteratos. So, in 2016 he enrolled as a Ph.D. student at the robotics and automation laboratory at the production and management engineering department, Democritus University of Thrace, Xanthi, Greece, where he was awarded his doctoral degree in 2021. His dissertation was supported by several research projects funded by the European Commission and the Greek government.  From 2021 to 2024, he was a postdoctoral researcher in the same department, focusing on applying machine learning algorithms to advanced mechatronic systems. At the same time, he served as an adjunct lecturer at the International Hellenic University’s departments of Supply Chain Management (2022) and Computer, Informatics & Telecommunications Engineering (2024). In 2024, he was elected and continues to serve as an Assistant Professor in the Information and Electronic Engineering department at the International Hellenic University, based at the Alexander Campus in Thessaloniki.

His research activities mainly focus on autonomous mobile robotics within the context of place recognition. Some of his most acknowledged works regard novel approaches for representing the environment within which a mobile agent operates, allowing for more accurate localization with the least possible hardware requirements and improving the applicability of robots toward more challenging environments. This is also evident in his publication record, which spans many high-impact conferences and journals, such as the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) and IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L). Last, since 2022, Dr. Konstantinos Tsintotas has been a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Check here for a full resume (pdf), available in Greek as well (pdf).

Please also visit my personal GitHub repository for more information regarding my research work.