# Nikolaos Giakoumidis

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## Identity

- Name: Nikolaos Giakoumidis
- Role: Commercial Lead – AI and Robotics
- Organization: NYU Abu Dhabi, Center for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (CAIR)
- Location: Abu Dhabi, UAE
- Site: https://giakoumidis.com
- CV: https://giakoumidis.com/cv.pdf

## Focus

Commercializing AI and robotics built on more than a decade of research infrastructure, experimental engineering, and field deployment. Background spans embodied and physical AI, multi-agent robotics, perception and sensing, laboratory establishment, and industry translation.

## Site structure

- / — Concise homepage (hero, profile proof, portfolio map, selected projects, laboratories/research/archive teaser, contact)
- /map — Portfolio map connecting major hubs
- /projects — Project case files (faceted index)
- /projects/[slug] — Individual case file
- /laboratories — Laboratory hubs
- /laboratories/[slug] — Laboratory detail
- /research — Publications, IP, awards
- /archive — Documentary evidence (photos, exhibitions, awards, media)
- /profile — Connected career narrative
- /cv.pdf — Downloadable CV

Legacy redirects: /infrastructure → /laboratories; /photos → /archive; /work → /projects.

## Contact

- Institutional: giakoumidis@nyu.edu
- Personal: giakoumidis@hotmail.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nikolaos-giakoumidis/
- Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=HmOOogwAAAAJ&hl=en
- GitHub: https://github.com/giakoumidis

## Accuracy

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