Associate Researchers

Konstantinos Paraskevas is an Embedded Systems and Robotics Engineer and Researcher collaborating with the Information Systems Laboratory (ISL), Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering, University of the Aegean. He holds an Integrated Master’s degree (M.Eng.) in Information and Communication Systems Engineering from the University of the Aegean and is currently pursuing an inter-institutional MBA in Digital Innovation and Startup Entrepreneurship (NTUA & University of the Aegean).

With extensive multidisciplinary industry and research experience across Horizon Europe and national R&D projects, his technical focus spans custom PCB design, embedded firmware development, low-power IoT architectures, and edge AI/computer vision systems for autonomous robotic platforms (AUVs, ROVs, and precision agriculture manipulators). He has authored seven peer-reviewed scientific publications (IEEE, scientific journals) and is the founder of Sprig Labs, an open-source hardware brand dedicated to next-generation ESP32 development platforms.

Vasileios Nikitaras is an Associate Researcher and Software Engineer at the Information Systems Laboratory (ISL), Department of Information and Communication Systems Engineering at the University of the Aegean. He holds an Integrated Master’s degree (M.Eng.) in Information and Communication Systems Engineering and is currently a postgraduate student in the MBA in Digital Innovation and Startup Entrepreneurship. His research and technical focus centers on Artificial Intelligence regulatory compliance (EU AI Act compliance), RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) architectures, Large Language Model (LLM) orchestration, and modern web information systems development.