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Ioannis Stefanakos is a researcher at the intersection of robotics, artificial intelligence, and safety-critical systems engineering. His work focuses on ensuring that autonomous systems—particularly mobile robots and assistive-care technologies—operate reliably and ethically in human-centered environments. Stefanakos made a significant contribution with his 2022 paper on safety controller synthesis for a mobile manufacturing cobot, which has garnered 18 citations and addresses the challenge of guaranteeing safe human-robot collaboration in industrial settings. He further explores the integration of normative requirements into software systems, as seen in his 2024 work on analyzing and debugging normative requirements via satisfiability checking (13 citations), which tackles social, legal, ethical, empathetic, and cultural (SLEEC) norms in domains like transportation and healthcare. His research also extends to adaptive planning for assistive-care robot tasks, introducing a graph-based path planning framework with predictive capabilities, and autonomous emergency triage support systems, aiming to alleviate medical staff shortages. With a growing citation footprint, Stefanakos is shaping the future of trustworthy, norm-aware autonomous systems.