Scholar
Nikos Athanasiou
Google Scholar ID: LhlnmyEAAAAJ
PhD @ Perceiving Systems, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Citations & Impact
Citations
2,277
H-index
12
i10-index
12
Publications
20
Co-authors
7
list available
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Multiple papers accepted at SIGGRAPH Asia 2024, CVPR 2024, ICCV 2023, etc.; passed the Qualification Exam; gave a talk at Electronic Arts (EA) about TEACH and SINC papers.
Research Experience
- Started a Research Scientist Internship at Meta XR Zürich in April 2024; spent two months as a guest at ENPC IMAGINE Lab in Paris from February to April 2024; worked at Deeplab during its early stages.
Education
- Ph.D. student at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Perceiving Systems department, supervised by Michael J. Black and Gül Varol; BS & MEng (Diploma) from ECE, NTUA in Athens, supervised by Alexandros Potamianos.
Background
- Research interests include exploring and analyzing the underlying causes behind human movement, combining language with human movement to generate and control 3D human motions. Interested in 3D humans, their interactions with other humans and their environment.
Miscellany
- Enjoys working with all kinds of possible data to train big models and is really interested in exploiting large VLMs and LLMs in smart ways to synthesize data.
