Yiannis Karayiannidis

Yiannis Karayiannidis (Docent 2017, Phd Eng. 2009, Diploma Eng. 2004) is Senior Researcher (equivalent to Associate Professor/Research) with the Division of Systems and Control (SYSCON), Department of Electrical Engineering (E2) at Chalmers University of Technology. He is also affiliated with the Dept. of Robotics, Perception and Learning (RPL former CVAP) at KTH, Royal Institute of Technology. He serves as Associate Editor for the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots (IROS) and Systems and the European Control Conference(ECC), and has been a reviewer for the major scientific journals specialised in robotics and automatic control. He is a WASP-affilated researcher and also serves as the treasurer of the IEEE Robotics Chapter in Sweden. He has been the PI for national (DARMA and DARMA_bridge by WASP, CHROMA by VR) but also for the H2020 SARAFun project representing KTH (ended in 2018.) His research interests include robot control, robotic manipulation in human-centered environments, dual arm manipulation, force control, robotic assembly, control of physical human-robot interaction, multi-agent robotic systems, adaptive control and nonlinear control systems.