Awards, Achievements & Scholarships

Best Technical Paper Award: Theofanidis M., Bozcuoğlu A.K., Neumann M., Cloud J., Kyrarini M., Makedon F., and Beetz M., 2021. Learning Visuomotor Policies with Deep Movement Primitives. In The 14th Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference (PETRA 2021), pp. 140-146. ACM. doi: 10.1145/3453892.3453899

Best Poster Paper Award: Nambiappan H.R., Kodur K.C., Kyrarini M., Gans N., and Makedon F., 2021. MINA: A Multitasking Intelligent Nurse Aid Robot. In The 14th PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments Conference (PETRA 2021), pp. 266-267. ACM. doi: 10.1145/3453892.3461010

NSF PETRA Conference Doctoral Consortium Award, 12th International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2019), Rhodes, Greece, June 5 – 7, 2019

Five Postgraduate International Programme in Physics and Electrical Engineering (PIP) Travel Awards: (1) 2nd International Summer School on Deep learning, Genova, Italy, July 23 – 27, 2018, (2) 11th Int. Conf. on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA 2018), Corfu, Greece, June 26 – 29, 2018, (3) 2017 IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2017), Vancouver, Canada, Sept. 24 – 28, 2017, (4) 25th European Signal Processing Conf. (EUSIPCO 2017), Kos, Greece, Aug. 28 – Sept. 2, 2017, (5) 2nd Int. Conf. on Frontiers of Signal Processing (ICFSP’16), Warsaw, Poland, October 15 – 17, 2016

2nd Place @ Humanitarian Robotics and Automation Technology Challenge, 2014 IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2014), Hong Kong, May 31 – June 1, 2014. Member of the Team: Geeks of square table – University of Bremen

Erasmus scholarship, National Technical University of Athens, Greece, 2013-2014

Award for exceptional academic performance in university entry exams, Eurobank, Greece, 2003

Six Awards of Excellence in Secondary and High School, Ministry of Education, Greece, 1998-2003