He received the Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Patras, Greece, in 2003 and the PhD degree in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota in 2008. His research interests lie in the areas of vision-aided inertial navigation, multi-robot systems, distributed estimation in mobile sensor networks, simultaneous localization and mapping, and structure from motion. Dr. Mourikis has been awarded the 2007 Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship from the University of Minnesota, the Regents’ Faculty Fellowship Award from the UCR Academic Senate, and is a recipient of the IEEE Transactions on Robotics 2009 Best paper Award (King-Sun Fu Award).