Kimon Roufas was born in Chicago, Illinois.  His family later moved to Greece.  There he built his first robot out of a modular hamster cage and a Commodore 64 at the age of thirteen.  His family then moved to Belgium, where he graduated from an international high school in Waterloo.  He went to Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York, and graduated with a Bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering and minors in Electrical Engineering and French.  At Rensselaer he was active in a number of societies, including the Rensselyrics, the track & field team, and completed a co-op placement with Pitney Bowes.  Kimon received a Master's degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University and then began working at Xerox PARC on Mark Yim's robotics project.  He is currently working towards a second Master's at Stanford in Electrical Engineering. His hobbies include cycling, playing soccer and music.