Georgios (George) Kyriakou

Expanded BotFactory’s reach into aerospace, defense, and national security markets. • Secured $3M+ in DoD/NASA/NSF funding; oversaw execution of government and industry projects. • Drove profit margin improvement from 40% to 75%. • Represented the company at NASA/USSF showcases, conferences and exhibitions, positioning BotFactory as a leader in additive electronics manufacturing.

Serving as the connective tissue between R&D, business, and external stakeholders. • Coordinating long-term vision with C-suite & Board while ensuring operational execution. • Managing multi-disciplinary teams and partner programs across DoD, academia, and industry. • Advocating a “people-first / mission-driven” culture to sustain innovation through alignment and autonomy.

Scaled operations and empowered specialized teams. • Created and managed BotFactory's Production and Quality Control (QC) team (five members), achieving a return-due-to-failure rate less than 1%, while slashing production costs using data-driven process improvements • Doubled the throughput yield year after year by identifying weaknesses and developing the skills of others • Developed a wider business perspective and coordinated the main entities of the company (R&D, Production, Sales/Marketing, Finance), aligning efforts according to the company's strategy and vision

Shifted the organization from prototype chaos to repeatable operations. • Designed and implemented the full manufacturing pipeline, managing 1,000+ unique components. • Introduced ERP/analytics tools to track yield, lead times, and cash flow, cutting idle inventory capital by 30%. • Negotiated supplier agreements and managed a $250 K annual production budget.

Co-founded BotFactory to turn additive electronics from a research concept into a practical tool. • Built the company’s first inkjet circuit printer and delivered initial sales to early adopters. • Defined the hardware/software architecture and wrote core firmware in Python and C/C++. • Bootstrapped the business from scratch, managing prototyping, early supplier relations, and first $1M in sales.

• Design and teach graduate-level Mobile Security course on Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, 4G, 5G, Android and iOS platform security, covering vulnerabilities, protocol analysis, and pen-testing. • Mentor 150+ students per year across 50+ hands-on projects using Android Studio, Wireshark, JADX, Burp Suite, and Kali Linux, emphasizing real-world protocol vulnerability testing and remediation.

• Strategic growth, capital allocation, marketing, and expansion planning, leading to >100% YoY revenue growth and tripled patient volume.

• Assumed leadership after an unexpected leadership loss and grew a $1M+ wholesale operation by 80% YoY — over 4x the sector average. • Reduced stockout and waste to <3% through predictive inventory and supply models, achieving 1.5-day inventory cycle.

• Mentored 16 graduate students through manual inspection and adjustment of network protocols in a hands-on environment equipped with Cisco routers. Students got exposed to various error detection and recovery scenarios • Efficiently managed a TA team of 7 PhD candidates to provide timely and quality academic resources for students • Served as a part-time teacher assistant for Network Protocols course. Facilitated subject-matter dialogue and encouraged students to develop critical thinking regarding internet protocol activity and process enhancements

• Scrutinized the parameters affecting the QoE of the users and the efficiency of the wireless spectrum, given the imminent VoLTE rollout. Formulated and solved the system as a feasible optimization problem in MATLAB • Thorough analysis of multiple “what-if” simulated scenarios revealed overlooked parameters, vastly impacting fairness of the current system. Solutions complying with the strategic goals of the corporation were engineered

• Trained 18 students on C coding and assisted students with improving their error-handling skills by recommending efficient troubleshooting techniques resulting in the consolidation of students’ coding methods • Independently developed and disseminated challenging coding exercises and simulations based on real-world scenarios in order to accelerate student experiences of algorithmic thinking and programming

A researcher with an emphasis on the MAC layer and above. Seeking for simple yet powerful ideas that can vastly improve technologies whose state is accepted as for granted. The notions of utilization, efficiency, and fairness fascinate me and I am attracted by the thin balance between them. Located somewhere in the middle-ground between the theorists and implementers.