I am the AI and Research Team Lead at Xihelm where we are developing new robots to harvest and pack delicate
crops. I have a MEng in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Bristol, an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering
from MIT, and a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering (Robotics) from MIT.
Rearranging blocks into densely packed configurations using PRM planner and Piece-wise linear
Non-monotone Rearangement Search
Filippos Sotiropoulos and Ryan Sandzimier
Trajectory Optimization and Control for Ball Bouncing Quadrotors
Filippos Sotiropoulos, Ryan Sandzimier and Jerry Ng
Continuous Blood Glucose Prediction in Insulin dependent Type 1
Diabetics
Filippos Sotiropoulos
Awards
Frederic Barnes Waldron Prize, Inst. of Mechanical Engineers, (2016); best mechanical
engineering
student
Univ. of Bristol Best Project Award, Inst. of Mechanical Engineers, (2016); best individual
project
Bechtel Industrial Individual Prize, University of Bristol, (2016); greatest contribution to
group
research project
Panhellenic Forensics Debate Competition, (2012); winning national debate competition
Teaching
Identification, Estimation, and Learning Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2.160
Key Concepts: machine learning, Kalman filters, system identification
Median Student Evaluation: 7/7