Alexandros Nikou

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Senior researcher
Ericsson Research
Torshamnsgatan 23
Stockholm, Sweden

E-mail: alex [dot] shmmy [at] gmail [dot] com

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Brief biography

Alexandros Nikou received the MEng degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering and the MSc degree in Automatic Control Systems and Robotics
both from National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2012 and 2014 respectively. In 2019, he received the PhD in Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science from KTH Royal Institute of Technology. He is currently senior researcher in Ericsson HQ in Stockholm, Sweden.
His research interests include AI for automation with applications to telecom and robotics.

News

  • (April 30, 2020), One paper was accepted for publication at IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering.

  • (January 30, 2019), One paper was accepted for publication at American Control Conference (ACC) 2019, Philadelphia, USA.

  • (September 9, 2018), One paper was accepted for publication at 2018 IEEE OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Symposium (AUVS), Porto, Portugal.

  • (August 19-29 2018), I attended Mathematics in Society Workshop organized by Department of Mathematics, KTH. At this workshop, companies proposed problems and work together with participants on their solution. I had a chance to work on a problem of data driven modeling for control of industrial systems, proposed by ABB Corporate research.

  • (June 11, 2018), presented the paper “Decentralized Control of Uncertain Multi-Agent Systems with Connectivity Maintenance and Collision Avoidance” at ECC 2018, Limassol, Cyprus.

  • (February 8, 2018), Two papers were accepted for publication at ECC 2018, Limassol, Cyprus.

  • (January 21, 2018), I attended the EECI 2018 course “Nonlinear Model Predictive Control” given by Prof. Frank Allgower in University Paris Saclay.

  • (December 16, 2017), I presented the papers “Decentralized Abstractions and Timed Constrained Planning of a General Class of Coupled Multi-Agent Systems”, “Position and Orientation Based Formation Control of Multiple Rigid Bodies with Collision Avoidance and Connectivity Maintenance” at CDC 2017, Melbourne, Australia.

  • (July 11, 2017), Two papers were accepted for publication at CDC 2017, Melbourne, Australia.

  • (July 8, 2017), I presented the papers “Robust Distance-Based Formation Control of Multiple Rigid Bodies with Orientation Alignment”, “Probabilistic Plan Synthesis for Coupled Multi-Agent Systems” at IFAC 2017, Toulouse, France.

  • (June 2, 2017), I successfully defended my Licentiate Thesis and awarded a Licentiate degree from KTH.

  • (May 24, 2017), I presented the paper “Cooperative Planning Synthesis for Coupled Multi-Agent Systems Under Timed Temporal Specifications” at ACC 2017, Seattle, USA.

  • (April 17, 2017), One paper was accepted for publication at MED 2017, Valetta, Malta.

  • (March 20, 2016), I attended the EECI 2017 course “Hybrid Feedback Control Systems: Analysis and design” given by Prof. Ricardo Sanfelice in University Paris Saclay.

  • (February 27, 2017), Four papers were accepted for publication at IFAC World Congress 2017, Toulouse, France.

  • (January 18, 2017), One paper was accepted for publication at American Control Conference (ACC) 2017, Seattle, USA.

  • (July 8, 2016), I presented the paper “Cooperative Task Planning of Multi-Agent Systems Under Timed Temporal Specifications” at ACC 2016, Boston.

  • (May 1, 2016), I attended the EECI 2016 course “Distributed control and computation” given by Prof. Stephen Morse in St. Petersburg Technical Unviersity.

  • (January 30, 2016), One paper was accepted for publication at American Control Conference (ACC) 2016, Boston, USA.

  • (December 6, 2016), I gave a presentation with title “Cooperative Task Planning of Multi-Agent Systems Under Timed Temporal Specifications” in the Dagstul Winter School of Computer Science.

  • (August 6, 2015), Accepted in the Dagstul Winter School of Computer Science.

  • (May 6-8, 2015), I attended Model Based Engineering, Workshop, Lund, Sweden.

  • (February 15, 2015), I was offered a research position from KTH School of Electrical Engineering, Department of Automatic Control among 110 candidates.

  • (January 30, 2015), One paper was accepted for publication at International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2015, Seattle, USA.