Associate Professor
Luleå University of Technology, Sweden
Christoforos Kanellakis received his Ph.D. in 2020 from the Control Engineering Group at Luleå University of Technology (LTU), Sweden, and his Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras (UPAT), Greece, in 2015. He is currently an Associate Professor with the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Group at LTU.
In the past he has been affiliated with NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), where he conducted research under the mentorship of Dr. Ali Agha and Prof. Joel Burdick as part of a research visit within the DARPA Subterranean (SubT) Challenge. His research interests encompass scene representation and understanding, and multi-modal sensing for autonomous robotic systems. He focuses on guidance and navigation in complex environments, with contributions in multi-agent coordination, vision-aided aerial manipulation, and field-hardened autonomy for mission-critical applications such as subterranean exploration, industrial inspection, and environmental monitoring.