Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos
Wallenberg Research Fellow at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Boston, Massachusetts, Sweden
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Top SchoolDimosthenis Kontogiorgos is a Wallenberg Research Fellow and conversational HRI specialist with 11 years of experience studying how robot embodiment shapes multimodal grounding in human-robot dialogue. Trained with a PhD in Computer Science from KTH and MSc from the University of Copenhagen, he blends human–computer interaction theory with computational modeling to quantify interaction and conversational dynamics. His career spans research roles at MIT, Humboldt‑Universität, University of Potsdam and visiting placements in the US and Australia, giving him a cross-cultural, interdisciplinary perspective. Comfortable with both experimental design and algorithmic description, he bridges lab-based studies and computational analysis to make robot communication measurable and actionable. Based in Boston with roots in Sweden and Greece, he brings uncommon depth in grounding mechanisms—a niche that informs robot design beyond typical speech or vision-only approaches.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Studies Computer Science, Exchange Studies Computer Science at Monash UniversityMaster of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at Københavns Universitet - University of CopenhagenDoctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyExchange Studies Computer Science, Exchange Studies Computer Science at Linnaeus UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BSc) Computer Science at University of West Attica
English, Spanish, Greek, German, Swedish, Danish
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Github Skills (34)
multimodal-interactions9
multimodal7
streaming7
pip6
computer-vision6
eclipse6
macos6
save6
graphviz6
component-library6
android6
workspace6
python6
java6
artificial-intelligence6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kth-social-robotics/multisensoryprocessing
Aug 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:188 commits, 1 PR, 176 pushes in 1 year 9 months
architecturesensory-processing
kth-social-robotics/realtimevis
Oct 2017 - Apr 2018
Contributions:36 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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