Yiannis Karayiannidis

Yiannis Karayiannidis is an Assistant Professor in the Mechatronics research group. He is also working as a Researcher with the Center of Autonomous Systems at KTH. He received a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering and a PhD from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in 2004 and 2009 respectively. His research interests include robot control, robotic manipulation in human-centered environments and dual arm manipulation, force control, control of physical human-robot interaction, multi-agent robotic systems and adaptive control. He is currently running the project (projektbidrag - Unga forskare) Cooperative Human Robot Object Manipulation via Adaptive learning control (CHROMA) which is funded the by the Swedish Research Council (VR). He is a reviewer in the major scientific journals specialised in robotics and automatic control. He is the treasurer of the IEEE Robotics Chapter in Sweden.