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Head of the Unit of Computing Sciences, Professor (Computer engineering) 

About me

My name is Kostas Stefanidis and I am a Professor on Data Science at the Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences (ITC) of the Tampere University in Finland, where I also lead the Data Science Subunit and the Group on Recommender Systems. I have more that 10 years of experience in different roles at ICS-FORTH in Greece, NTNU in Norway and CUHK in Hong Kong. I got my PhD in personalized data management from the Univ. of Ioannina in Greece. My research interests are in the broader area of big data. My work focuses on personalization and recommender systems, entity resolution, data exploration and data analytics, with a special focus recently on socio-technical aspects in data management like fairness and transparency, and published in more than 100 papers in top-tier conferences and journals. I have been involved in several international and national research projects and I am also actively serving the scientific community. Currently, I am the General co-Chair of EDBT/ICDT 2026, ADBIS 2025, TPDL 2025, and ICWE 2024.

Research topics

Recommender Systems / Fairness / Entity Resolution / Data-Driven Software Evolution Analysis / Question Answering over Knowledge Bases

About me

I am determined to solve challenging robotics problems, build autonomous robots to work for human and with human, and train future robotics engineers to be able to do so. 

Responsibilities

Responsible for Robotics major, and international program on Automation Engineering https://www.tuni.fi/en/study-with-us/automation-engineering
Member of automation program development group.  

Field of expertise

Autonomous machines, robotics, AI, optimal control, imitation learning, motion control, optimal trajectory planning, model predictive control, control-estimation integration, construction robotics. 

I am both with Robotics and Intelligent Machines Lab (https://research.tuni.fi/robotics/) and Innovative Hydraulics and Automation Lab (https://research.tuni.fi/iha/).

Research topics

Currently: making autonomy easier by learning methods, more generic estimation and control solutions, software tools, and understanding safety for autonomous mobile machines, and MIMO Radars

About me

I lead the Cognitive Robotics research group. My research interests are in enabling humans and robots to interact and collaborate.

Responsibilities

Co-responsible for TAU's robotics major studies and Robolab Tampere

Research topics

• Human-robot collaboration
• Cognitive robotics
• Deep learning for robotics
• Robot design

Research unit

Automation Technology and Mechanical Engineering

Research career

I obtained my MSc and PhD in robotics at Eindhoven University of Technology (NL) in 2009 and 2013, respectively. I was a postdoctoral researcher in ETH Zurich (CH) from 2013 to 2016 and in Aalto University (FI) from 2016 to 2017.
Since September 2017 I lead the Cognitive Robotics research group at Tampere University.