Dr. Dimitrios Giakoumis

Dr. Dimitrios Giakoumis is a Principal Researcher (Grade B’) at the Information Technologies Institute (ITI) of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH). He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. His main research interests include human-robot interaction, robot vision, service robot perception and cognition, affective computing, human motion, activity and behaviour analysis and modelling, safe and social-aware robot navigation, biosignals processing and sensor management, multimodal interfaces, machine learning and pattern recognition. His involvement in these areas has led to co-authoring of more than 125 papers in refereed journals, international conferences and book chapters. Since joining CERTH in 2007, he has been involved in more than 25 European and national research projects. He has been the Coordinator of the Horizon Europe -funded research projects RobetArme, MANiBOT and PLIADES, on AI, Data and Robotics.