Michail G. Lagoudakis
Academic Research Partner
Michail G. Lagoudakis is currently an associate professor with the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece since September 2005. Prior to this appointment, he held a postdoctoral fellow position at the Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, from 2003 to 2005, and a visiting researcher position at the Shannon Laboratory of AT&T Labs during the summer of 2000. He received his Doctoral degree in Computer Science with distinction from Duke University, USA in 2003, a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Louisiana, Lafayette, USA in 1998, and a Diploma in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras, Greece in 1995. His research interests are mainly in Machine Learning and Robotics with extensive research experience and expertise in the area of Decision Making under Uncertainty and Reinforcement Learning. His published research work includes 5 book chapters, 9 journal and 45 conference articles and has been cited more than 4000 times by other researchers (Google Scholar h-index: 24). He has served as a member on more than 40 program committees of various international conferences and as a reviewer on more than 25 scientific journals and 25 international conferences. He teaches undergraduate (Theory of Computation, Structured Programming, Artificial Intelligence, Autonomous Agents) and graduate (Machine Learning, Probabilistic Robotics) at TUC and has supervised 1 doctoral, 5 master’s and 68 diploma theses. Soon after his arrival at TUC, he founded Team “Kouretes” [www.kouretes.gr], which conducts research in autonomous robotics, but also organizes and supports educational robotics activities for students of all levels of education. With the group “Kouretes” he has been continuously participating since 2013 in the annual open STEAM events of the Technical University of Crete: Science and Technology Day every autumn and Open Day every spring. Since December 2017, he has been elected and serves in the Administration of the Technical University of Crete from the position of Vice Rector for Administrative, Academic, and Student Affairs.
