About Me

I am a Research Assistant Professor at the CYENS Research and Innovation Centre of Excellence in Cyprus where I co-direct the "Cognitive Artificial Intelligence and Robotics" (CAIR) research team, and I am also an adjunct lecturer and associate research fellow at the University of Cyprus (UCY). My research explores how software agents and robots efficiently learn, plan and acquire diverse skills in complex environments, often by integrating multimodal sensory data. I received an MSc in Intelligent Systems Engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK (2008), and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from UCY (2015). I have done post-doctoral work at Inria, France (2015-2018) working on algorithms for efficient damage recovery in robotics. I have secured more than 2M euros in funding through national, European and industrial projects, and have contributed as a reviewer and author in top-tier conferences and journals on topics related to artificial intelligence, robotics, machine learning, neural networks, and evolutionary algorithms.