About

I am a Ph.D. researcher at the Digital Aviation Research and Technology Centre (DARTeC) at Cranfield University, affiliated with the School of Aerospace, Transport, and Manufacturing (SATM), under the supervision of Prof. Weisi Guo. My work is supported by an EPSRC iCASE award with Thales UK (EP/X52475X/1).

Prior to Cranfield, I received my Diploma from the University of West Attica and worked as an undergraduate intern and then as a Research Associate in the Extreme Robotics Laboratory (ERL) at the University of Birmingham under Dr. Manolis Chiou, where I developed probabilistic methods for variable autonomy robotic systems with a human-in-the-loop, deployed in hazardous environments.

My research asks how autonomous agents can become principled participants in the full knowledge-acquisition loop, not just acting on pre-processed data, but actively gathering information through conversation, knowing when that conversation is working, and translating what they learn into the structured signals that drive decisions. I treat both sides of this loop with the same engineering rigour normally reserved for physical sensing and control. The measurement side, defining turn-level signals that quantify progress and detect when a dialogue has stopped yielding useful information. The grounding side, designing middleware that converts messy, self-correcting natural language into bounded, mathematically well-typed inputs a controller can safely consume. The motivational domain is search-and-rescue, but the architecture is deliberately domain-agnostic.

Current work is pushing the measurement layer toward fully geometry-aware methods, opening a path to more mathematically principled and transferable dialogue instrumentation.