Dr. 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 Chalkida, 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, 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. His dissertation was supported by several research projects funded by the European Commission and the Greek government. In addition, during his doctoral studies, he contributed to the department’s day-to-day activities as a teaching assistant and the support of diploma theses by five undergraduate students.
His research activities are mainly focused 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 Dr. Tsintotas’s 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).
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.