Vangelis Vassalos
Sr Manager, Embedded Vision AI SW HW at Hellenic Open University
Greece
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Top SchoolVangelis Vassalos is a Head of Technology specializing in Edge AI Platforms with 15+ years of hands-on expertise in embedded systems, FPGA/ASIC-level digital design and deployment of TinyML across MCUs, MPUs, FPGAs and NPUs. He pairs a Ph.D. in high‑speed digital arithmetic VLSI with extensive industry experience driving FPGA acceleration, embedded vision and AI/ML deployment pipelines at Irida Labs, progressing from hardware engineer to technology leader. Alongside leading cross-functional engineering teams and an Agile PMO, he manages strategic partnerships with silicon vendors and steers multi-project R&D efforts funded at European and national levels. An active academic since 2010, he teaches HDLs, FPGA design and microcontroller programming, bringing rigorous research habits into product-focused engineering. Notably, his deep CMOS and HDL background gives him a rare ability to optimize system-level tradeoffs from transistor timing to deployed neural models on constrained edge devices.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) VLSI Desing of High Speed Digital Arithmetic Circuits, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) VLSI Desing of High Speed Digital Arithmetic Circuits at University of Patras
EnglishGithub contributions (5)
vangvassalos/vangvassalos.github.io
Feb 2018 - Oct 2025
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 8 months
vangvassalos/yolov5-NCS2
Sep 2021 - Jan 2022
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 tag in 3 months
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