Dr Theo Theodoridis

Dr Theo Theodoridis is an Associate Professor in Robotics and Intelligent Systems, and the Head of the Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering group at the University of Salford. He received the BEng degree in Automation Engineering from the Technological Educational Institute of Piraeus (University of West Attica), Greece, the MSc degree in Embedded Systems and Robotics, and the PhD degree in Intelligent Crime-Recognition Surveillance Robots from the University of Essex, UK. He worked as a postdoctoral senior research officer (EPSRC grant) at NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), focusing on multimodal human-robot interfaces and visual guidance, as well as pattern recognition control methods. TT is the founder of the Robotics and Autonomous Vehicles (RAV) research group, the leader of the Intelligent Mobility area at North England Robotics Innovation Centre (NERIC), and his research has been funded by EC EP5-7, EPSRC, MRC, Innovate UK, and the Reginal Growth Fund (RGF) with a total grant income of over £1.8M. TT has excellent development experience collaborating with the industry, and a significant research contribution of various publications and research outputs in Robotics and AI.