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Dimitrios Kanoulas is Professor in Robotics and AI in the Department of Computer Science at University College London (UCL), a UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Head of the department's Intelligent Robotics Group, and head of the Robot Perception and Learning (RPL) Lab. His research applies perception and learning to articulated robots that locomote and manipulate in uncertain natural environments, with a focus on legged robots.

He received his PhD from Northeastern University (Boston) in 2014, working on curved-surface perception for rough-terrain locomotion, then spent five years at the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia (IIT), where he led the perception team of the WALK-MAN humanoid at the DARPA Robotics Challenge finals and contributed to the EU projects WALK-MAN, CENTAURO and CogIMon. He joined UCL as a Lecturer in 2019, became Associate Professor in 2022 and Professor in 2024.

He has published 160+ papers in venues including T-RO, RA-L, T-ASE, ICRA, IROS, CoRL, RSS and ICML, received the Best Interactive Paper Award at Humanoids 2017, the UK-RAS Early Career Award 2022 and the UCL-CS Early Career Researcher of the Year 2022, and has organised numerous workshops on legged robotics and the Autonomous Quadruped Robot Challenge at ICRA/IROS.

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