Our Team

The CARAML project unites senior and junior researchers, software engineers, and external advisors working in the fields of cognitive robotics, AI and knowledge representation. Below you can meet the people behind the project.

  • Panos Trahanias

    Panos Trahanias

    Principal Investigator – Faculty member / Researcher

    Robotics and Computer Vision
  • Antonis Argyros

    Antonis Argyros

    Faculty member / Researcher

    Computer Vision
  • Giorgos Flouris

    Giorgos Flouris

    Computer Science Researcher (FORTH-ICS)

    Symbolic AI Knowledge Graphs Computational Argumentation
  • Theodore Patkos

    Theodore Patkos

    Scientific Coordinator

    Symbolic AI Knowledge Graphs Computational Argumentation
  • Vasilis Efthymiou

    Vasilis Efthymiou

    Faculty member / Researcher

    Knowledge Graphs Big Data Data Integration
  • Katerina Papantoniou

    Katerina Papantoniou

    Postdoctoral researcher

    NLP LLM
  • Iason Oikonomidis

    Iason Oikonomidis

    Postdoctoral Researcher

    Computer Vision
  • Christos Trifinopoulos

    Christos Trifinopoulos

    Scientific personnel – PhD Candidate

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  • Emmanouil Papadakis

    Emmanouil Papadakis

    PhD Researcher (FORTH-ICS)

    Robot Control Robot Design
  • Elias Tzortzakakis

    Elias Tzortzakakis

    R&D Engineer (FORTH-ICS)

    Knowledge Graphs DevOps Services
  • Ariadne Pratikaki

    Ariadne Pratikaki

    R&D Engineer (FORTH-ICS)

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  • Michael Maravgakis

    Michael Maravgakis

    PhD Student, Robotics Software Engineer

    Robot control and state estimation Reinforcement learning
  • Haris Apostolou

    Haris Apostolou

    Robotic Software Engineer

    Robot Control and Machine Learning
  • Dimitris Gkoutzounis

    Dimitris Gkoutzounis

    Electrical and Computer Engineer, R&D Engineer

    Robot Control Reinforcement Learning
  • Vassilis C. Nikodemou

    Vassilis C. Nikodemou

    Postdoctoral Researcher at ICS-FORTH

    Computer Vision Artificial Neural Networks Vision-based Human-Computer Interaction
  • Konstantinos Papoutsakis

    Konstantinos Papoutsakis

    Postdoctoral researcher in Computer Vision and Robotics

    Computer Vision Machine/Deep Learning Vision-based action understanding Human-Robot Interaction

External Advisors

  • Antonis Bikakis

    Antonis Bikakis

    External Advisor (University College London)

    Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
  • Yiannis Demiris

    Yiannis Demiris

    External Advisor (Imperial College London)

    Robotics
  • Markus Vincze

    Markus Vincze

    External Advisor (TU Wien)

    Computer Vision, Robotics

Get In Touch

Address

Institute of Computer Science (ICS)
Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas
100 N. Plastira St., Vassilika Vouton
70013 Heraklion, Crete, Greece

Collaborative Institutions

Host Institute

FORTH – Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas

FORTH - Institute of Computer Science

Financial Support

H.F.R.I. – Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (ELIDEK)

ELIDEK