And now, what's going to happen to us without barbarians?
They were, those people, a kind of solution.

[C. Cavafy, "Waiting for the Barbarians"]


Dimitrios Kanoulas
[Δημήτρης Κανούλας]

  • Address:
    College of Computer & Information Science
    Northeastern University
    360 Huntington Avenue,
    West Village H, #202
    Boston, MA 02115, USA
  • Office: West Village H, #214 (0016173732502)
  • e-mail: echo "name@ccs.neu.edu" | sed -re 's!name!dkanou!'

  • I support: Free and Open Source software and hardware.
    (See: GNU Project, Free Software Foundation, and Open Source Hardware).
    I am a big fan of Open Source Ecology.

    NEWS: in my twitter account



    I am currently a Ph.D. student at the Geometric and Physical Computing (GPC) Lab in the College of Computer and Information Science at Northeastern University, advised by Prof. Marsette Vona.
    I am working in the field of computer vision and robotics, and in particular, I am developing new estimation and planning algorithms for articulated robots that locomote in uncertain natural environment. I am focused on developing new theoretical results on sensing, real-time map building and self/environment modeling of curved surface contact patches which include statistical models of uncertainty, for the purpose of bipedal and humanoid locomotion on very uneven 3D terrain, using SLAM and perception systems.

    I started out as a member of the Algorithms and Theory group at Northeastern University , advised by Prof. Rajmohan Rajaraman, and particularly Algorithmic aspects of Game Theory [Equilibria complexity, and applications of A.G.T. in the Networks domain], Approximation Algorithms, and Combinatorial and Linear Optimization remain some of my primary research interests.

    I did my undergraduate studies in the school of Computer Engineering and Informatics at University of Patras in Greece, advised by Prof. Paul Spirakis, and Dr. Haralampos Tsaknakis.

    Curriculum Vitae

    I'm interested in: My Erdos Number: 3 [László Lovász (1) -> Rajmohan Rajaraman (2) -> Dimitrios Kanoulas (3)]

    Here is my CV: [.pdf]

    Publications

    [DBLP, FacetedDBLP, Google Scholar, ResearchGate, Academia, Linkedin, iamresearcher, mendeley]
    1. "Sparse Surface Modeling with Curved Patches",
      with Marsette Vona.
      In the 2013 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2013.
      [abstract] [bib] [.pdf] [Acceptance Rate: 39%]

    2. "CTY Robotics and Applied Computing",
      with Marsette Vona.
      Manual Documentation, December 2012
      [.pdf]

    3. "Cache me if you can: Capacitated Selfish Replication in Networks",
      with Ragavendran Gopalakrishnan, Naga Naresh Karuturi, C. Pandu Rangan, Rajmohan Rajaraman, and Ravi Sundaram.
      In the Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics, LATIN 2012.
      [abstract] [bib] [.pdf] [arXiv] [slides] [Acceptance Rate: 36%]

    4. "Curved Surface Contact Patches with Quantified Uncertainty",
      with Marsette Vona.
      In the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2011.
      [abstract] [bib] [.pdf] [videos] [source code] [Acceptance Rate: 32%]

    5. "Performance evaluation of a descent algorithm for bi-matrix games",
      with Haralampos Tsaknakis, and Paul Spirakis.
      In the 4th Workshop on Internet & Network Economics, WINE 2008.
      [abstract] [bib] [Paper .pdf] [TR .pdf] [arXiv] [Acceptance Rate: 33%]

    6. "Approximate Nash Equilibrium"
      Conducting theoretical and experimental research on optimal algorithms
      that can result in better approximate Nash Equilibria in bimatrices games.
      Dimitrios Kanoulas
      Bachelor`s Thesis, University of Patras, Computer Engineering and Informatics Dept.
      co-advisors: Paul Spirakis and Haralampos Tsaknakis, July 2008
      [abstract] [bib] [.pdf] (in Greek)

    Professional Experience

    Research Group & Seminar

      Geometric and Physical Computing Seminar,
      Northeastern University (Spring 2010 - now).
      Algorithmic Game Theory Reading Group,
      Northeastern University (Fall 2008, Spring 2009).
      Boston University - Northeastern Joint Theory of Computation Seminar,
      Boston and Northeastern University (Fall 2008 - now).
      Seminar on Communications, Algorithms, Networking, and Security (SCANS)
      Northeastern University (Fall 2008 - Fall 2012).
      Northeastern PhdStudentSeminar,
      Northeastern University (Fall 2008 - now).
      DUTH Robotics Team
      DUTH (Spring 2011- Fall 2011).
    Run SCANS and Ph.D. Seminar: Fall 2009, Spring 2010
    Organized and run the Algorithmic Game Theory Reading Group: Fall 2008, Spring 2009