Aris Lalos

Aris S. Lalos received the Diploma, M.A.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the Computer Engineering and
Informatics Department, University of Patras (UoP), Rio-Patras, Greece, in 2003, 2005, and 2010,
respectively. He is currently a Research Director at Industrial Systems Institute of Athena Research
Center (ATHENA R.C.). He has been a Senior Research Scientist at the Signal Processing and
Communications Laboratory, CEID, SE, from 2005 to 2010; at the Signal Theory and Communications
(TSC) Department, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, from October 2012 to
December 2014 and at the Visualization and Virtual Reality Group of the Electrical and Computer
Engineering department, UoP, from Jan 2015 to Jun. 2018. From October 2011 to October 2012, he
was a Telecommunication Research Engineer at Analogies S. A., an early stage starts up. In May 2018,
he was elected as a Principal Researcher and in Feb. 2023 as a Research Director at Industrial Systems
Institute, ATHENA R.C.. He is the author of 170 research papers in international journals (53),
conferences (108), and book chapters (9). He has participated in 25 European and National projects
related to robotics, precision agriculture, autonomous vehicles and e-health domains. His general
research interests include model based deep learning, 2D/3D scene analysis, distributed signal
processing and learning over graphs .He received the Best Demo Award in IEEE CAMAD 2014, the
Best Paper Award in IEEE ISSPIT 2015, and the World’s FIRST 10K Best Paper Award in IEEE ICME
2017. He acts as a regular reviewer of several technical journals. In January 2015, he was nominated as
an Exemplary Reviewer of the IEEE COMMUNICATIONS LETTERS. He served as a Deputy
Coordinator for the CPSoSAware H2020 EU Project and as a Technical Coordinator for the GamECAR
H2020 EU Project. Furthermore, he had the role of Work Package Leader in five H2020 Projects. After
2018, he formed his own group (https://mips.isi.gr) within ISI that now counts ten active members
(post-docs, Ph.D. students, and programming engineers) in research and development projects. Since
2019, he is also the president of the scientific advisory board of Industrial Systems Institute. Finally, in
June 2023 he co-founded AviSense.AI, a spin off of ATHENA R.C. and UoP that brings forth perception
technologies that bolster safety within the broad consumer vehicle market.