Dr. Stathis Papaefstathiou is leading the Microsoft Robotics Team. Throughout his career, Stathis has been passionate about applying cutting edge technologies to practical problems that eventually will mature to products and profitable businesses. He moved to the product side of the organization to develop and release performance management technology that he developed during his time with Microsoft Research. As a Product Unit Manager for Capacity Planning, he led the engineering team that shipped the first release of System Center Capacity Planner. During his tenure at Microsoft, he has held a number of technical and management positions, including leading the architecture for the resource management and scheduling infrastructure of a next generation operating system.

In his current role, he is responsible for defining and implementing Microsoft's strategy in Robotics. His charter includes the creation of a viable and sustainable business model for Robotics in addition to the development of Robotic technologies and products. His group has released the following products:

• CCR and DSS Toolkit delivers a set of .NET and Compact Framework class libraries and tools that enable developers to better deal with the inherent complexities in creating loosely-coupled concurrent and distributed applications.
• Robotics Developer Studio 2008 (RDS) is a Windows-based environment for the hobbyist, academic, and commercial developers to create robotic applications for a variety of hardware platforms. RDS includes a lightweight REST-style, service-oriented runtime, a set of visual authoring and simulation tools, as well as tutorials and sample code to help get users started.
• Recite is the first search technology for voice. Our sample application makes a busy mobile lifestyle easier by providing an easy method for remembering, searching, and retrieving mental notes and reminders from their Windows Mobile Device using the sound of their voice. Later, when you need the information simply search and retrieve the remembrance using your voice. 

Stathis received a PhD degree from the University of Warwick, UK, in 1995. His thesis addressed the development of a framework for performance analysis of parallel/distributed systems.

Stathis holds numerous patents and has published dozens of scientific papers in journals and at international conferences. He is a dedicated enthusiast of science fiction and enjoys flying single engine airplanes. For more detail information please refer to his resume.