Awards & Grants

🏅 Awards

• IVA’s 100 List — Current Research with Potential to Create Value · Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA)
  Listed for the project “AI-enabled Data-Driven Change Detection.”
  IVA List | Project | Nov 2024

• Best Paper Award — “Standing the Test of Time: Retrospective and Future of World Representations for Lifelong Robotics” Workshop @ IEEE IROS 2024
  N. Stathoulopoulos, V. Sumathy, C. Kanellakis and G. Nikolakopoulos, “Does Sample Space Matter? Preliminary Results on Keyframe Sampling Optimization for LiDAR-based Place Recognition.”
  Workshop | LinkedIn Post | Paper | Full Paper [J8] | Oct 2024

💰 Grants

• IEEE ICRA 2025 RAS Travel Support Grant · IEEE Robotics and Automation Society
  Travel support to present corresponding publication at IEEE ICRA 2025 in Atlanta, USA.
  Paper [J4] | Mar 2025

• Wallenberg Foundation’s Jubilee Grant · Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
  Travel grant to present corresponding publication at IEEE ICRA 2024 in Yokohama, Japan.
  Paper [C5] | Info | Feb 2024

• Wallenberg Launchpad (WALP) Phase 2 — AI-enabled Data-Driven Change Detection · WASP financed by the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation
  Phase 2 awarded following successful pitch; continued development of the concept from initial publication.
  Program | Paper [C3] | Nov 2023