Petros Maragos

Petros Maragos is a Professor at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, where he directs the Division of Signals, Control and Robotics. He founded the Computer Vision, Speech Communication & Signal Processing Lab (1999) and the Hellenic Robotics Center of Excellence (2025). His research spans signal processing, computer vision, robotics, and machine learning, with 450+ publications and leadership in 50+ EU/Greek/US projects.

Education includes a Dipl.Ing. from NTUA (1980), M.Sc./Ph.D. from Georgia Tech (1982/1985), and faculty positions at Harvard University (1985-1993) and Georgia Tech (1993-1998).

Research Focus: Multimodal perception, nonlinear systems, assistive robotics, and deep learning. Recent work integrates tropical geometry with neural networks, robotic healthcare applications, and sign language technologies. Articles emphasize neural architectures, real-world robotics, and AI for social good.

Awards:

• IEEE Fellow (1995), EURASIP Fellow (2010)
• IEEE W.R.G. Baker Prize (1995)
• NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award (1987-1992)
• CVPR/PETRA Best Paper Awards (2022-2025)

Advising & Grants: Supervised 30+ PhDs and 130+ Master's students. Secured funding from EU Horizon 2020, NSF, and Greek national programs for projects like i-Walk (robotic mobility) and e-Prevention (mental health monitoring).

Labs: Leads NTUA's Intelligent Robotics Lab and co-founded the Robotics Institute at Athena Research Center, focusing on human-robot interaction and perception systems.