Konstantinos Kyriakopoulos
Professor of Electrical Engineering
Affiliation: NYU Abu Dhabi
Education: PhD Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Research Areas: Robotics; Autonomous Systems; Automatic Control
Kostas Kyriakopoulos received a Diploma in Mechanical Eng. (Honors) from NTUA (1985) and the MS (1987) and PhD (1991) in Electrical, Computer, and Systems Eng. (ECSE) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY. Between 1988-1991 he performed research at the NASA Center for Intelligent Robotic Systems for Space Exploration. Between 1991-1993 he was an Assistant Professor at ECSE - RPI and the NY State Center for Advanced Technology in Automation and Robotics. Since 1994 he has been with the Mechanical Engineering Department at NTUA.
His current interests are in the area of Embedded Control Systems applications in multi-Robot Autonomous Systems (Mobile, Underwater, and Aerial Vehicles / Manipulators). He was awarded the G.Samaras Award of Academic Excellence (NTUA), the Bodosakis Foundation Fellowship (1986-1989), the Alexander Onassis Foundation Fellowship (1989-1990), and an Alexander Von Humboldt Fellowship (1993). He has published ~330 papers in journals and fully refereed international conferences; he is Specialty Chief Editor for Frontiers in Robotics and AI, Senior Editor of IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, and he serves in the editorial committees of a number of publications, and has served as an administrative member of a number of international conferences. He has contributed to 40 projects funded by the EC and Greek Sources. He is an IEEE Fellow.