Georgios Angelopoulos is a robotics and AI researcher who received his PhD from the University of Naples Federico II, where he was a Marie Curie fellow. His main research interests include human-robot interaction and assistive robotics, with a specific focus on making complex robot behaviours more transparent and trustworthy to human users. His work has been published in prestigious conferences, including IEEE/RSJ IROS, IEEE RO-MAN, and ACM/IEEE HRI. Georgios has collaborated with various European institutions and conducted research visits at the University of Manchester's Cognitive Robotics Lab and Bielefeld University's Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology.
Georgios Angelopoulos is a robotics and AI researcher who received his PhD from the University of Naples Federico II, Italy, where he was a researcher in the EU H2020 PERSEO project. His main research interests include human-robot interaction and assistive robotics, with a specific focus on making complex robot behaviours more transparent and fostering trust in human users. In addition to studying the role of the dynamical properties of body movements, he also focuses on non-verbal cues and personalisation techniques to enhance human understanding of robotic systems. As part of his doctoral research, he was a visiting researcher at the Cognitive Robotics Lab at the University of Manchester (2023) and the Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology at Bielefeld University (2024).
Throughout his academic career, Georgios has published his research in prestigious robotics conferences, including IEEE/RSJ IROS, IEEE RO-MAN, and ACM/IEEE HRI. He is actively involved in the robotics research community, serving as a reviewer for these conferences and for journals such as ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, the International Journal of Social Robotics, and IEEE ACCESS. Additionally, he has contributed to the field by organising workshops focused on personalisation and robotics at HRI and CoRL conferences.
Prior to completing his PhD, Georgios earned his Master’s degree in Intelligent and Interactive Systems from Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain, in 2020. In 2019, he received his Diploma in Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering from the University of Western Macedonia, Greece. During his undergraduate studies, he founded the award-winning Hyperion Robotics team, leading it to compete in the World Robot Olympiad in Qatar (2015) and India (2016). He received an award from the Prime Minister of Greece and the Federation of Hellenic Information Technology & Communications Enterprises (SEPE) at the Digital Economy Forum. During his last years of undergraduate studies, Georgios completed an Erasmus+ internship at the CTTC research centre in Spain, where he worked as a research scientist for the IoT World project.
His research aims to bridge the gap between robots and humans by making robotic processes more transparent and trustworthy, ultimately facilitating better human-robot collaboration.