Summary
Dimitris Dimou is a robotics software engineer and final-year PhD researcher with 11 years of experience, specializing in human-inspired control for dexterous humanoid hands. His work at ISR-Lisboa applies generative models—particularly variational auto-encoders—to grasping and manipulation, bridging robotics, machine learning, and computer vision. Now based in Athens and working at QSC, he combines academic rigour with practical engineering to move advanced manipulation algorithms toward real-world deployment. Dimitris’s background in electrical and computer engineering and a cross-disciplinary master's gives him a systems-level view that informs both research and production code. He maintains a personal project portfolio that showcases hands-on implementations of his generative-model approaches to robotic grasping.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Patras
Pontifical Catholic University of Paraná
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Robotics at Instituto Superior Técnico
English, Greek, Portuguese