Kostas J. Kyriakopoulos received the Diploma in mechanical engineering (honors) from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Athens, Greece, in 1985 and the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical, computer and systems engineering (ECSE) from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI), Troy, NY, USA, in 1987 and 1991, respectively.,From 1988 to 1991, he was with the NASA Center for Intelligent Robotic Systems for Space Exploration. From 1991 to 1993, he was an Assistant Professor with ECSE-RPI and the NY State Center for Advanced Technology in Automation and Robotics. Since 1994, he has been with the Control Systems Laboratory of the Mechanical Engineering Department, NTUA, where he currently serves as a Professor and the Director. His research interests include nonlinear control systems applications in sensor-based motion planning and control of multirobotic systems: manipulators and vehicles (mobile, underwater, and aerial) and micro- and biomechatronics. He has authored/coauthored about 280 papers to journals and refereed conferences, while has contributed to a large number of projects funded by the EC and the Greek secretariat for Research and Technology.,Prof. Kyriakopoulos is a Fellow of the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society. (Based on document published on 24 May 2018).