IS&RL - N. VLASSIS

Intelligent Systems & Robotics Laboratory

Department of Production Engineering & Management • Technical University of Crete

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Nikos Vlassis, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor

Tel: +30 28210 37363
e-Mail Address: vlassis at dpem.tuc.gr

Education, Current Research Interests
Teaching, Professional Experience
Research Grants and Contracts, Awards and Honors
Publications

Education

Ph.D., 1998, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering , National Technical University of Athens, Greece
Engineering Diploma, 1993, Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering , National Technical University of Athens, Greece

Current Research Interests

Stochastic optimal control and Robotics
Machine learning (unsupervised and reinforcement learning)

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Current Teaching

Algorithms for Robotic Problems (graduate)
Robotics (undergraduate)
Probability and Statistics (undergraduate)

Professional Experience

Assistant Professor, Technical University of Crete (Jan 2007 - present)
Assistant Professor, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam (Oct 2001 - Dec 2006)
Research Fellow, Informatics Institute, University of Amsterdam (Sep 1998 - Oct 2001)

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Recent Research Grants and Contracts

NWO/STW PROGRESS, Dutch national project on coordination and planning in robotic and embedded systems (2001-2006)
NWO/STW 'Tools for nonlinear data analysis', Dutch national project on data mining (2000-2005)

Awards and Honors

First prize in the Robocup 2008, Suzhou, China, in the SPL- MS Robotics Studio, with the team 'Kouretes' of the Technical University of Crete
Second prize (among 9 teams) in the RoboCup 2007, Atlanta, USA, in the MS Robotics Studio soccer challenge, with the team 'Kouretes' of the Technical University of Crete
Best scientific paper award in the Robocup Symposium (Osaka, Japan, July 2005), for the article `Using the max-plus algorithm for multiagent decision making in coordination graphs'
First place (among 46 teams) in the robot soccer World Championship (RoboCup) with the UvA Trilearn simulation team of the University of Amsterdam (2003)
Scholarship from the Japanese Ministry of Technology as a visiting scientist for 3 months in ETL, Tsukuba, Japan (1999)
The Dimitris N. Chorafas Foundation Prize for young scientists in Engineering and Technology, Luzern, Switzerland (1998)

Selected Publications

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