Research-Professional Experience

    • 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