Published papers: 'On the Trade-off between Over-smoothing and Over-squashing in Deep Graph Neural Networks' accepted at CIKM 2023; 'Digital Twin for Automated Industrial Optimization: Intelligent Machine Selection via Process Modelling' accepted at IAICT 2023; Received credits from the OpenAI Researcher Access Program for research in reasoning with LLMs.
Research Experience
Pursued Ph.D. at École Polytechnique and worked with DaSciM team; Founded BLUAI, a Greek AI company that accelerates AI adoption and integrates novel NLP technologies; Co-founded PrimeHost AI, a startup aiming to automate guest conversations using AI.
Education
Ph.D.: October 2015 to February 2019, thesis titled 'Novel Representations, Regularization & Distances for Text Classification', supervised by Professor Michalis Vazirgiannis, École Polytechnique, France; MSc: 2014-2015, Master M2 in Math, Computer Vision and Machine Learning (MVA), École Normale Superieure de Cachan, France; BSc: May 2013, Bachelor in Computer Science, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece.
Background
Currently an Assistant Professor of Natural Language Processing (NLP) at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Ioannina. Main research interests include NLP, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Data Science, with a focus on 4R's: representations, regularization, robustness, and reasoning.
Miscellany
Engages in competitions and technical talks, such as presenting on using large language models as a soft skill at the University of Ioannina.