Dr Antonios Porichis

Dr Antonios Porichis received his MSc-equivalent 5-year Diploma of Engineering in 2012 from the Electrical and Computer Engineering School of the National Technical University of Athens. His Diploma Thesis on Modelling and Evaluation of Laparoscopic Surgical Skill received the Thomaidion Award as the best Diploma Thesis of the same year. From 2013 till 2021 he has worked as a Robotics and Machine Learning engineer taking up positions of Team Manager and Technical Director. He is now a post-doc research officer at the University of Essex In 2021 Antonis joined the University of Essex and the National Structural Integrity Research Centre as a PhD student and received his PhD award in 2025. His research was sponsored by Lloyd's Register Foundation and it focused on the development of Learning by Demonstration Algorithms for human-to-robot skill transfer that will enable automation of complex tasks.