Bio
I’m an electrical engineer and data scientist working at the intersection of AI/ML and mission-critical industries such as industrial automation, wireless networks and others. I am the author of an upcoming book “Engineering AI Agents”, the cultivation of spending several years at NJIT and NYU where I am lecturing on such topics.
I attended the University of West Attica (Greece) earning a degree in Electronics Engineering with Highest Honors and became a scholar of the Greek National Scholarship Foundation that funded my post-graduate studies at the University of Surrey, UK. There I earned a MSc in Telematics and completed my Ph.D in wireless communications and coding under Prof Rahim Tfazolli and Prof Barry Evans while in parallel working for Philips Research Labs.
After a short stint at Intracom SA, I joined Lucent Technologies in 1996 and Bell Labs in Holmdel, NJ in 1998 where I worked at the vernerable Performance Analysis Department. I moved around multiple departments including the chief technology office, wireless standards development and others leading teams and various projects on wireless communications and intelligent antennas. Lucent became Alcatel-Lucent and finally Nokia and during my 22-year tenure I received two Bell Labs President’s awards. I started worked in machine learning in 2009, initially for missing critical systems such as self-organizing networks and subsequently for non-telecom applications such as perception.
In 2020, I joined academia as Professor of Practice in the CS department at NJIT and as an adjunct professor at NYU - positions that I still hold. Around that time I founded Aegean AI Inc a consulting firm specializing on perception and industrial automation.
You can find a list of my publications here. My patents are aggregated here.