Nikolaos Vlavianos, Ph.D.

forReal  | Founder and CEO

Nikolaos Vlavianos, Ph.D. (MIT), is the founder and CEO of forREAL, a Physical AI company transforming how people discover, experience, and engage with real estate remotely. Founded in 2024 following an innovation award from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) and a successful seed funding round, forREAL brings AI, computer vision, and spatial intelligence to real estate, hospitality, and yachting.

Nikolaos earned his Ph.D. in Design and Computation at MIT, where his research pioneered Physical AI at the intersection of architecture, spatial computing, computer vision, and human perception—creating intelligent systems that understand and interact with the built environment.