Dr. Kosmatopoulos is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He has been an Assistant Professor with the Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece and Deputy Director of the Dynamic Systems and Simulation Laboratory at TUC. Prior to joining TUC, he was Research Assoc. and Assist. Professor with the Department of Electrical Engineering-Systems, University of Southern California (USC) and a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, B.C., Canada.

Dr. Kosmatopoulos has been involved in various applied research projects virtual reality, intelligent manufacturing systems, fault detection in TV cable plants, telecommunications, control of space telescopes, control of air vehicles and hypersonic vehicles, mitigation of earthquake effects to civil structures, intelligent highway systems, intelligent transportation systems, traffic control, agile ports, energy positive buildings and robotic swarms. While in the U.S. he was involved as the Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator or Technical Consultant in many research projects funded by NASA, Department of Transportation and Air Force or the private sector. Currently he is involved in research projects (funded by the EU, the Greek Secretariat of Research & Development and the private sector) involving Energy Positive Buildings, Robotic Swarms and Intelligent Transportation Systems.