Ioannis Papoutsis
Assistant Professor
National Technical University of Athens
SHORT BIO
| Ioannis Papoutsis is an Assistant Professor of Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence at the National Technical University of Athens and an Adjunct Researcher at the National Observatory of Athens. He holds a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), a Master of Science in Telecommunications from University College London, an MBA from Alba Business School, and a PhD in satellite remote sensing from the NTUA. He is leading OrionLab research group (http://orion-ai-lab.github.io/) that focuses on big satellite data analytics and machine learning for Earth Observation applications, with emphasis on natural disasters management and climate change impact monitoring. His research interests encompass the development of foundational models in remote sensing, focusing on self-supervised techniques for multi-modal EO data. He is also invested in advancing vision-language models for the analysis and interpretation of remote sensing data, as well as earth system deep learning for spatiotemporal forecasting. He coordinates four European research projects: ThinkingEarth, MeDiTwin, DeepCube, and SeasFire, on AI for addressing critical environmental challenges. He has been the Operations Manager of the Greek node of European Space Agency (ESA) Hubs that distribute Sentinel data, as well as a Copernicus Emergency Management Services Manager for Risk and Recovery. |
