EDUCATION:
2011-NOW:
- Pursuing a graduate degree as a Master Student of the department of Precision Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, University of Tokyo
2010:
- Got awarded the Monbukagakusho scholarship issued by the Japanese government for research and graduate studies in Japanese universities.
2009:
- Obtained a bachelor degree in Informatics from the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Department of Informatics.
- Semi-fluent in the Japanese language, certified by the 4th and 3rd level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test (??? ????).
- Fluent in the English language, certified by the Certificate of Proficiency in English (CPE) administered by Cambridge University and by the TOEFL test issued by ETS.
- Fluent in the Greek language, as native tongue
RESEARCH:
2011-NOW:
- Member of the Jun Ota Mobile Robotics Laboratory, University of Tokyo. Conducting research on the Activity Search Modeler, a web data retrieval application that employs machine learning to understand and model activities from the world wide web
2009:
- Participated in Infosystem 2009 as an exhibitor, showcasing my work done on the mazebot. Click here for link.
2008:
- Trying to stay on top of developments on the field by striving to participate on any conferences I can find such as the AI 2008 conference held in Cambridge UK, by the British computer society (BCS).
- Interested in Intelligent Systems, Artificial Intelligence and Robotics as denoted by my participation in various extracurricular activities such as the PATAT 2007 timetabling competition.
- Prior programming experience in numerous programming languages and development environment such as Java, C, C++, C# , Prolog and Matlab while working in various projects
EMPLOYMENT:
2009:
- Previous experience working with Robotics and Artificial Intelligence when I was hired by the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki, Department of Informatics to create a set of exercises for the teaching of the Artificial Intelligence class using a robot whose firmware I programmed from scratch. I worked there as a system developer and as a programmer.
HONORS/AWARDS:
2011:
- Honorable Mention Award: For Presentation at the 59th conference of Mobile Computing and Ubiquitous Communications of the Information Processing Society of Japan. click for link
PUBLICATIONS:
2011:
- Karapetsas Eleftherios, Yusuke Fukazawa and Jun Ota, Retrieving Information about Real World Activities from the Web, IPSJ SIG Technical Reports, 2011-MBL-59, 2, 1/7 (2011). click for link
2010:
- Eleftherios Karapetsas and Demosthenes Stamatis, A Robot Vision Algorithm for Navigating in and Creating a Topological Map of a Reconfigurable Maze,
published in the 20th International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, September 15-18, 2010, Thessaloniki, Greece click for link
2009:
- Eleftherios Karapetsas, AI and Robotics, graduation thesis for the Technological Educational Institute of Thessaloniki. Click here for link
2008:
- Eleftherios Karapetsas and Demos Stamatis, Teaching AI Concepts Using a Robot as an Assistant, In Fasli, M. ,Proceedings of the 4th Artificial Intelligence in Education Workshop, Cambridge, UK. HEA-ICS. Click for link
