Kostas Alexis is Full Professor at the Department of Engineering Cybernetics of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU)
Highlights of his research include leading Team CERBERUS winning the DAPRA Subterranean Challenge and a host of contributions in the domain of resilient robotic autonomy – in perception, planning and control, including learned navigation policies. Earlier research has included contributions in the ETH Zurich team that set the endurance world record for UAVs in the below 50kg class with AtlantikSolar flying continuously for 81.5 hours.
Since becoming a professor, initially in the US and then in Norway, he has been the PI for a host of grants from NSF, DARPA, NASA, DOE, USDA, Horizon Europe, the Research Council of Norway and other public and private sources.
