George Chrysanthakopoulos is a Distinguished Engineer and the software architect for the Microsoft Robotics effort. His recent work is on vision and probabilistic models for autonomous navigation, resulting in a prototype robot equipped with affordable sensors, now successfully navigating autonomously.

Chrysanthakopoulos is the primary contributor for CCR/DSS, a set of .NET libraries that enables a complete application and programming model focused on concurrency, coordination, and data-driven services. The CCR/DSS runtime is deployed in very large-scale settings inside and outside Microsoft. It is also the basis for the Microsoft robotics framework. Prior to his role in incubation and robotics Chrysanthakopoulos was a development lead on the original Xbox project and in Windows NT base.

He holds a M.S. and PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, a B.S. in Computer Engineering from Virginia Tech and has been with Microsoft since February of 1996.