Scientific Project Manager in Industry 5.0 & Smart Manufacturing section
Institute of Communication & Computer Systems (ICCS)
Athens, Greece
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Nasia Balakera is scientific project manager in I-Sense Group team at ICCS institute in Athens and holds a MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering.
I-SENSE is one of the Research Groups of the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) of the National University of Athens in Greece (NTUA). Founded in 2002, I-SENSE Research Group is committed to the highest standards of academic excellence and research innovation in the field of electrical, electronic and computer engineering & technologies with more than 200 Horizon Europe projects.
The main application areas are the following:
Circular Economy & Tracing
Frameworks & Digital Tools for Circularity, Data Management Systems ,
Digital Product Passports and Tracing , AI/ML models for quality & quantity assessment, DSS and Recommenders for biomass and Energy
EO & Environmental Monitoring
Sensors, wearables, wireless sensor networks , Data management architectures & platforms, EO based sensing, image processing, data fusion, sensing optimization , Downstream applications for land/soil, water and air; Small sat study
Extended Reality
Extended Reality technology applications for Stronger, connected, resilient and prosperous rural areas., Human robot collaboration for Ergonomics optimization, Textile handling, Wood sorting, Digital twins and simulation environment, for collaborative scenarios
Industry 5.0 & Smart Manufacturing
Tailored Industrial Sorters, Multi-sensing agents , Co-Robots & AGVs , Smart Retrofitting
Nasia Balakera is project manager in the Industry 5.0 & Smart Manufacturing section of I-Sense Group at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) and holds a MEng in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Our section's aim is to develop advanced industrial waste sorting systems. These systems use cutting-edge hyperspectral and optical imaging, delta robots, air nozzles, X-ray sensors, and pretreatment units. Their focus is effective sorting of (bio)plastic waste, construction and demolition waste, metal wastes, mining characterization, and wood wastes.