Vangelis Vassalos
Head Of Technology, Edge AI Platforms
Heraklion, Region of Crete, Greece
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Top SchoolVangelis Vassalos is a Head of Technology specializing in Edge AI Platforms with 15+ years of hands-on expertise in embedded systems, FPGA/ASIC-level digital design and deployment of TinyML across MCUs, MPUs, FPGAs and NPUs. He pairs a Ph.D. in high‑speed digital arithmetic VLSI with extensive industry experience driving FPGA acceleration, embedded vision and AI/ML deployment pipelines at Irida Labs, progressing from hardware engineer to technology leader. Alongside leading cross-functional engineering teams and an Agile PMO, he manages strategic partnerships with silicon vendors and steers multi-project R&D efforts funded at European and national levels. An active academic since 2010, he teaches HDLs, FPGA design and microcontroller programming, bringing rigorous research habits into product-focused engineering. Notably, his deep CMOS and HDL background gives him a rare ability to optimize system-level tradeoffs from transistor timing to deployed neural models on constrained edge devices.
8 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) VLSI Desing of High Speed Digital Arithmetic Circuits , Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) VLSI Desing of High Speed Digital Arithmetic Circuits at University of Patras
EnglishGithub contributions (5)
vangvassalos/vangvassalos.github.io
Feb 2018 - Sep 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
vangvassalos/yolov5-NCS2
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 tag in 3 months
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