Athanasios Kapoutsis
Visiting Researcher at Information Technologies Institute (ITI)
Thessaloniki, Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
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Top SchoolAthanasios Kapoutsis is an experienced robotics researcher and engineer with a decade of R&D experience driving autonomy, multi-robot coordination, and large-scale distributed control across academic and EU-funded projects. As head of the AURA Lab and an Assistant Professor at Democritus University of Thrace, he blends theoretical advances in path-planning and multi-agent reinforcement learning with practical deployments for UAV/UGV/AUV coverage and exploration. He has held sustained research roles at CERTH/ITI and ILSP and now serves as a Visiting Researcher at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, reflecting a track record of cross-institutional collaboration and project leadership. Known for turning complex control and planning problems into deployable systems, he brings both PhD-level depth in robotics and hands-on experience leading Horizon-funded consortia. An underappreciated strength is his ability to bridge adaptive control theory with real-world heterogeneous robot teams, enabling scalable autonomy beyond lab prototypes.
10 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Engineer's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Democritus University of ThraceDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Path-planning, Optimization, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Path-planning, Optimization at Electrical and Computer Engineering, Democritus University of Thrace
Github Skills (6)
robotics8
plug8
robot8
java8
distributed-systems5
autonomous-agents2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
athakapo/A-distributed-plug-n-play-algorithm-for-multi-robot-applications
Sep 2018 - Jan 2022
A distributed, plug-n-play algorithm for multi-robot applications with a priori non-computable objective functions
Contributions:2 releases, 1 review, 30 commits in 3 years 3 months
roboticsautonomous-agentsplug-n-playrobotmulti-robot
Contributions:11 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 3 months
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