Nov 2019 - T o d a y : Lead Research Scientist, Manager, Snap Inc. , Vienna
Apr 2017 - Oct 2019: Sr. Computer Vision Scientist/Sr. Staff Engineer, Daqri, Vienna
Jan 2016 - Mar 2017: Sr. Computer Vision Scientist, Daqri, Dublin(IE) / Sunnyvale (CA, US)
Feb 2012 - Jan 2016 : Researcher, Perception Team, INRIA Grenoble, France
Oct 2010 - Dec 2011: Post-doctoral researcher, University of Patras (CEID), Greece
Sep 2009 - Sep 2010: Post-doctoral researcher, IAIS Fraunhofer -Multimedia Pattern Recognition Group, Sankt Augustin (Bonn), Germany
Oct 2007 - Sep 2009: Teaching Associate/Lecturer, Technological Educational Institute of Larissa, Greece
Feb 2007 - Oct 2007: Military Service in Greek Army
Sep 2003 - Jan 2007: Research Assistant (Phd Candidate), University of Patras, Greece (+part-time teaching)
Expert knowledge in areas:
3D Reconstruction, SLAM, Visual-Inertial Odometry
Depth sensors, Depth-Stereo Fusion,
Camera Calibration
Image/video/point-cloud registration and alignment
Machine Learning
Key contributions:
ECC algorithm (developed during my phd) is an OpenCV function
PI of MIXCAM project and main researcher of joint project between SAMSUNG and INRIA
Main researcher of VHIA project (ERC Advanced Grant)
Publications in top-tier computer vision journals/conferences (PAMI, IJCV, CVIU, ICCV, ECCV)
four PAMI papers as first author
Reviewer for top computer vision journals (PAMI, CVIU etc) and conferences
IAT: A complete Matlab toolbox for image alignment and registration