Vassilios N. Christopoulos received his Diploma in Production Engineering
and Management in 2002 and his MSc degree in 2003, from the Technical University

of Crete, Chania, Greece. In May 2005, he received his MSc from the department

of Computer Science and Engineering at University of Minnesota, working in the

Multiple Autonomous Robotic Systems (MARS) Laboratory. Currently, he is a PhD

student at the Computer Science and Engineering Department and is working as

as Research Assistant (advisor: Prof. Apostolos Georgopoulos) in the Brain Science

Center located in the VA Medical Center of Minneapolis. In addition, he is affiliated

member of Center of Cognitive Science and member of Computational Perception

and Action Laboratory (advisor: Prof. Paul Schrater).

His research interests focus on Cognitive Neuroscience, Coding/Decoding Brain

Signals, Brain Computer Interface, Motor Control, Human Reaching and Grasping,

Distributed Intelligent Systems and Large-Scale Optimization using biomimetic methods.