Dr. Konstantinos Laskaris joined Tesla in 2012 and currently is the lead design engineer for Tesla Humanoid robot actuators and the Director of Motor technology. He received his diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), his master’s degree in Communications and Signal Processing from the Imperial College London, UK, and his PhD in Electric Motor geometry optimization for variable speed drives from the NTUA, Greece. Some of his most significant work at Tesla includes the design of traction motors for all vehicles since 2012, the in- house development of the powertrain design tools, as well as the actuator systems of the Tesla humanoid robot. His research interests include physics modeling of powertrain components, parametric design, loss modeling and optimization using supercomputers.
