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Yiannis Gatsoulis is a leading researcher in long-term autonomous robotics, human-robot interaction, and qualitative spatio-temporal reasoning. His most impactful work, the STRANDS Project (196 citations), demonstrated how service robots can achieve sustained autonomy in real-world environments over extended periods, addressing critical challenges in deployment and reliability. Gatsoulis pioneered the use of qualitative spatial relations for robot perception, creating the widely-used QSRlib software library (39 citations) that enables robots to abstract meaningful patterns from noisy video data. His research on situation awareness measurement in teleoperated systems (35 citations) established foundational methods for evaluating human-robot team performance in domains like urban search and rescue. Gatsoulis also made significant contributions to unsupervised learning and intrinsic motivation, developing novelty detection frameworks (21 citations) that allow robots to autonomously identify and learn from new experiences without human supervision. His work on unsupervised activity recognition using latent semantic analysis (17 citations) enables mobile robots to learn human movement patterns from long-term observation. Through these innovations, Gatsoulis has advanced the frontier of robots that can operate intelligently and adaptively in human environments over months and years.