Panagiotis PAPADAKIS

I obtained the Informatics and Telecommunications Degree and the Doctorate degree in Information Technology from the National University of Athens, Greece, in 2005 and 2009 respectively. Since June 2016, I have been appointed as "Maître de Conférences" (Associate professor) at IMT Atlantique Bretagne/Pays de la Loire (formerly known as École Nationale Supérieure de Télécommunications de Bretagne), Department of Informatics. In April 2023, I defended my Accreditation to Direct Research (HDR in French), entitled "Computer Vision and Robot Navigation in 3D Environments". Since 2020, I am co-leading the team RAMBO, CNRS Lab-STICC, UMR 6285 and I am also an associate member of the International Research Laboratory (IRL) CROSSING.

My main research interests lie in the fields of Robot Control, Robotic Vision and 3D Shape Analysis & Matching with an emphasis on applications related to robotic service assistance technologies and urban search and rescue (USAR). During my doctorate research, I contributed to two international patents in the field of content-based 3D model retrieval. In 2012, I was the UGV pilot of the team that was dispatched to the earthquake-hit area of Emilia Romana in Italy, which was the pioneering mission of a human-robot team for Urban Search & Rescue in Europe. I have (co)authored articles in top-tier journals including the International Journal of Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, and Robotics and Automation Magazine. I have further served as a teaching assistant in the undergraduate course of Computer Graphics at the University of Athens, as tutor to the postgraduate courses of Computer Vision/Perception and Pattern Recognition at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” and as teaching assistant to Programming courses at ENSTA ParisTech. I further hold the Cambridge Proficiency of English Language, the Diploma of French Language of 1st degree, the teaching qualification of Section 61 for the French Superior Education as well as the State Diploma of Music Harmony and Degree in Organ.