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), Greece. He holds a PhD in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. Since joining CERTH in 2007, he has contributed to more than 20 European and national research projects, undertaking roles including Technical Coordinator and Principal Investigator. 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.