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Position: Associate Professor in Informatics and Robotics, HDR, IMT Atlantique Bretagne/Pays de la Loire, France
Co-leader of research team RAMBO, CNRS Lab-sticc

Associate member of IRL CROSSING

e-mail:    panagiotis DOT papadakis AT imt-atlantique.fr

Short Bio:     

    I received the Informatics and Telecommunications Degree and the Doctorate degree in Information Technology from the National University of Athens, Greece, in 2005 and 2009 respectively. Since June 2016, I am "Maître de Conférences" (Associate professor) at IMT Atlantique Bretagne/Pays de la Loire (formerly known as École Nationale Supérieure de Télécommunications de Bretagne), Department of Informatics.

    My main research interests lie in the fields of Cognitive Robotics, Computer Vision, and Artificial Intelligence. Following the competion of my PhD in 2009, I contributed two international patents in the fields of content-based 3D model retrieval. In 2012, I was as the UGV pilot of the team that was dispatched to the earthquake-hit area of Emilia Romana in Italy, which was the pioneering mission of a human-robot team for Urban Search & Rescue in Europe. I have (co)authored several articles in top-tier journals and conferences in the domains of computer vision and robotics and taught various related courses from undergraduate to post-graduate levels in different countries and institutions across Europe. Over the years, I have gained >1M€ of research funds, co-supervised numerous (post)doctoral researchers, and contributed to the evaluation and dissemination of science.

Previous posts:

• 2014-2016: Post-doctoral researcher at teams COGROB/U2IS of ENSTA ParisTech, University of Paris-Saclay and FLOWERS, INRIA.

• 2012-2014: Post-doctoral researcher at teams e-Motion of INRIA at Grenoble and LAGADIC of INRIA at Sophia-Antipolis, France.

• 2010-2012: Post-doctoral researcher at laboratory ALCOR in the Department of Computer, Control and Management Engineering, University of Rome “La Sapienza”, Italy.

• 2005-2009: Doctorate candidate in Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, Greece.

  • • Affiliated with laboratory CIL, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos", Athens, Greece.

Current activities:

I am currently involved in several projects with academic as well as industrial partners (see https://www.imt-atlantique.fr/en/person/panagiotis-papadakis#edit-group-encadrements as well as Projects tab) in domains at the intersection of assistive robotics, urban search and rescue, machine learning and digital twin.

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