Professor and Vice Chair · Biological and Agricultural Engineering, UC Davis
Stavros G. Vougioukas received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece (1989). He conducted graduate studies in the U.S. under a Fulbright grant and several research assistantships. He received his M.Sc. in Electrical and Computer Engineering (SUNY at Buffalo, 1999) and his Ph.D. in Robotics and Automation (Electrical, Computers and Systems Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 1995). Afterward, he worked for one year as a post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Industrial Engineering in Parma, Italy. Until 2011 he was faculty at the School of Agriculture of the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki. In 2012 he joined the Biological and Agricultural Engineering Department at the University of California, Davis.
He has published more than 140 journal and conference papers, most of them in agricultural robotics and automation. He leads research on agricultural robotics, with an emphasis on labor-saving technologies, funded by grower commodity boards, federal agencies, and industry.
Grapebot
Table-grape harvest transport
FRAIL-bots
Fragile-crop container co-robots
Orchard platform
Co-robotic picker lifts
Linear arm array
Vision-guided tree-fruit picking
Strawberry capper
Orienting and capping line
Rotator-mixer
COVID-19 saliva sample prep
Yield monitor
Almond and pistachio sensing
