The MSc in Artificial Intelligence organises and invites you to attend a webinar on Wednesday, May 7, 2025, at 19:00, titled:"Open Large Language Models for Greek: from Meltemi to Krikri"
Guest Speakers:
Vassilis Katsouros, Giorgos Paraskevopoulos, and Sokratis Sofianopoulos
Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/nNePTeA8TAOoyR239cw_aA
Short bios
Vassilis Katsouros
Research Director and Director, Institute for Language and Speech Processing / Athena Research Center
Vassilis Katsouros is a Research Director at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) of the Athena Research Center and has been the Director of ILSP since June 2019. He received his diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1992, his M.Sc. with Distinction in Communications and Signal Processing from Imperial College London in 1993, and his Ph.D. from the same university in 1997 in Mathematical Modelling and Stochastic Control. Since 1998, he has been working at ILSP.
Giorgos Paraskevopoulos
Affiliated Researcher, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athena Research Center
Giorgos Paraskevopoulos received his diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens in June 2016. In 2024, he earned his Ph.D. from NTUA in Multimodal Processing using Deep Neural Networks. In 2019 and 2022, he worked as an applied research intern with the Alexa team at Amazon Lab126 and the Amazon Transcribe team at AWS. He has experience in the field as both a software engineer (Intracom Telecom) and a machine learning engineer (Behavioral Signals). Since 2020, he has been an affiliated researcher at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) of the Athena Research Center.
Sokratis Sofianopoulos
Affiliated Researcher, Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athena Research Center
Sokratis Sofianopoulos graduated from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Ioannina in 2002 and holds an MSc in Distributed and Multimedia Information Systems from the Department of Computer Science at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (2003). He received his Ph.D. from the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 2010, based on research related to language modeling for machine translation systems and multi-objective optimization using evolutionary algorithms. Since 2005, he has been a research associate at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing (ILSP) of the Athena Research Center.
