George NikolakopoulosGeorge Nikolakopoulos works as a Chair Professor in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI), while heading the Robotics Team at the Division of Systems and Interaction in the Department of Computer Science, Electrical and Space Engineering, Luleå niversity of Technology, Sweden.

In the past he was also affiliated with the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at Pasadena, California for contacting collaborative research on Aerial Planetary Exploration, where his team participated in the DARPA Grand challenge on Sub-T exploration with the COSTAR team of NASA and won the second stage of the competition in February 2020.

George is also a member of the Board of Directors at euRobotics , as a member of the Scientific Council of ARTEMIS in the field of Robotics and AI and member of the IFAC TC on Robotics. George is also an elected expert for the permanent working group (PWG) of A.SPIRE with a focus on Process Optimisation and Ultra Carbon Coal as well as an elected member on the Aeneas-XECS in embedded control systems.

Finally, George has established the Digital Innovation Hub on Applied AI at Luleå University of Technology, has created 2 spin-offs where FieldRobotix has been selected from IVA to joing the REACHME Silicon Valley accelerator. The work of George and his team has been included 3 times in a row at IVA top 100 list. Read More Read Less