Team
Evagoras Xydas
Evagoras Xydas is the CEO and founder of IREROBOT LTD. In 2011, he earned his PhD with a focus on Robotic Rehabilitation and Haptic Interfaces from the University of Cyprus. Earlier, as a Chevening scholar, he obtained an MSc in Assistive Technology from King’s College London in 2004. He completed his foundational BSc in Mechanical Engineering from Budapest University of Technology and Economics, graduating with an excellent GPA in 2002. Throughout his academic journey, Evagoras has been honored with numerous scholarships and accolades. His extensive experience includes academic roles in prestigious universities and hands-on industrial work in robotic systems and interactive devices, particularly through his leadership at IREROBOT LTD.
Constantina Polykarpou
Constantina Polykarpou received her Master’s degree in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Twente, Enschede in the Netherlands, and her Bachelor’s degree in Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering from the University of Cyprus, Nicosia. As part of her Master’s thesis, she designed an upper-body attachment that was connected to a lower-body exoskeleton, for assisting workers whose daily working tasks require heavy lifting/lowering, or carrying. Constantina also completed an internship at the Biorobotics Institute of Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna in Pisa, Italy where she worked on the topic of prosthetics with focus on design and prototyping.
Kyriakos Lingis
Kyriakos Lingis is a Computer Engineer, specializing in Computer Architecture, and he received his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Cyprus in 2022. His thesis centered on the FPGA-based acceleration of a deep neural network for the detection of arm and wrist motions using electromyographic signals to control mobile robotic arms. Kyriakos worked mainly with Java, C++, Swift, and multiple software development tools like Intel Quartus, Xilinx Vivado, and Android Studio. His proficiency extends across operating systems, embedded systems design, and development for iOS and Android
kyriakos.lingis@irerobot.com
Elena Christodoulou
Elena Christodoulou is specialized in finance and administrative topics. She graduated from the University of Cyprus in 2017 with a bachelor’s degree in English Language and Literature – Translation Track. When she was a student at the University, she earned two prestigious public scholarships for her exemplary academic performance. The first one was from the Cyprus State Scholarship Foundation and the second from the University of Cyprus.
Rahul Kumar Ray
Rahul Kumar Ray is a VR and haptics researcher. He received his master’s Degree in biomedical engineering at the National Institute of Technology of Kurukshetra, India. He is currently a PhD student at Touch Lab in applied mechanics at the Indian Institute of Technology in Madras, India. He has worked as a research engineer at the Inria Center of the Université de Lille in France. His work was about wearable electronics, haptic drivers, tactile actuators, tactile animations and implementation of VR/XR technologies.
Alumni
Panagiotis Herodotou
Panagiotis Herodotou received his BSc in Mechanical Engineering (2016, University of Cyprus) with excellence, received a scholarship from “Leventis foundation” and finished his MSc in Mechanical Engineering (2018, Technical University Delft) with specialization in Biomechanical design, specifically in high-performance elastic actuators. From January 2018 to March 2022, he worked in the Netherlands as a mechatronics engineer on the design development of a knee exoskeleton for rehabilitation, and on the production and quality control of a powered prosthetic knee. During this time he developed exoskeleton prototypes and he designed and verified their control algorithms. In parallel, he worked on the creation and implementation of the several procedures of the company’s Quality Management System, where he helped achieving a CE certificate for the prosthesis in December 2021. He has experience with several standards form medical devices, such as IEC 60601-1 and ISO 13485, and he is a certified auditor for ISO 9001.
Panagiotis Xydias
Panagiotis Xydias received his Meng in Electrical and Computers Engineering (2022, ECE Department at University of Patras) with a grade of 3.40 GPA. He worked for IREROBOT LTD first as an intern and then as a fulltime employee. He helped miniaturize the PCB for ACETT and improve a signal processing algorithm that converts sounds to touch among other tasks.
Kyriacos Clerides
Kyriacos Clerides received his Bachelor of Engineering in Robotics (2015) from the University of the West of England and his MSc in Robotics (2018) from the University of Bristol. He worked for IREROBOT LTD from June 2022 until December 2023. He helped develop an and program an exoskeleton robot and to miniaturize the PCB for ACETT, among other tasks.
Banu Abdikadirova
Banu Abdikadirova has collaborated with IREROBOT LTD as a BSc student at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, within the context of the project Seventh Sense, by participating in the setting-up and execution of experiments as well as in analyzing the retrieved data and writing relevant reports and publications. After completing her collaboration with IREROBOT in 2018 she went on to pursue a PhD on Exoskeletons at the University of Massachussets at Armehrst, under a full merit-based scholarship.
Nurgeldy Praliyev
ALUMNI:
Nurgeldy Praliyev has collaborated with IREROBOT LTD as a BSc student at the Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department of Nazarbayev University in Astana, Kazakhstan, within the context of the project Seventh Sense, by participating in the setting-up and execution of experiments as well as in analyzing the retrieved data and writing relevant reports and publications. After completing his collaboration with IREROBOT in 2018 he went on to pursue an MSc at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics for which he has secured a full merit-based scholarship.
Christina Papakyprianou
ALUMNI:
Christina Papakyprianou received her BEng in Medical Engineering from Cardiff University, and she has recently completed an MSc in Biomedical Engineering at the University of Liverpool. Shw was employed at IREROBOT from July 2021 until December 2021 as an R&D engineer working on the project ACETT. She went on to pursue an international career as a biomedical implant designer at a leading firm.
