Marios Kiatos
CTO & Co-Founder at Progressive Robotics
Thessaloniki, Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
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Top SchoolMarios Kiatos is a robotics-focused technology leader and CTO & Co-Founder with nine years of experience advancing robot manipulation through deep learning and practical system integration. He holds a PhD in Robotics Learning and has led research-to-product work across academia and European-funded projects, developing vision-based perception, grasp planning, and reinforcement learning solutions for real-world robotic tasks. Skilled in Python, PyTorch, ROS and MuJoCo simulations, he bridges rigorous research with deployable software modules and experimental validation. Marios has a track record of turning perception and control research into demonstrable systems for tabletop and domestic manipulation, and he continues to push continual-learning approaches for embodied agents. Based in Thessaloniki, he combines startup leadership with deep hands-on research experience, often integrating sequence models and simulation-driven training into robotic pipelines. An investigator who moves seamlessly between papers and production, he brings both scientific rigor and pragmatic engineering to robot autonomy.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy(PhD), Electrical and Computer Engineer, Doctor of Philosophy(PhD), Electrical and Computer Engineer at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Greek, English
Github Skills (9)
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mkiatos/power-push-grasping
Jan 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:99 commits, 9 pushes, 2 comments in 7 months
mkiatos/mkiatos.github.io
Mar 2022 - Aug 2022
Contributions:47 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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