Dr Vassilis Vassiliades is a Research Assistant Professor at the CYENS CoE in Cyprus where he directs the “Cognitive Artificial Intelligence and Robotics” research team. His research explores how software agents and robots efficiently learn, plan and acquire diverse skills in complex environments, often by integrating multimodal sensory data. He received an MSc in Intelligent Systems Engineering from the University of Birmingham, UK (2008), and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence (AI) from the University of Cyprus (2015). He has done post-doctoral work at Inria, France (2015-2018) working on algorithms for efficient damage recovery in robotics. Vassilis has secured more than 2M euros in funding through national, European and industrial projects, and has contributed as a reviewer and author in top-tier conferences and journals on topics related to AI, robotics, machine learning, neural networks, and evolutionary algorithms.