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katerina pastra

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“Research requires teamwork. Along the years, I have been surrounded by vibrant people, with diverse scientific backgrounds, eager to dig deeper and avoid the lure of technological hypes. Indebted for their contributions, proud of their achievements and career paths…”

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eirini balta

Senior research associate

Eirini is a Senior Computer Engineer with an MSc in Language Technology, currently a PhD candidate in Cognitive Psychology, at Panteion University. Her research career spans more than 15 years and a number of R&D projects in academia. She is a longterm collaborator in the Lab,  focusing on Embodied Knowledge Representation and in particular, on developing algorithms for the automatic detection of basic level concepts.

Jim karpodinis

Industrial Phd Candidate

Jim is an AI Engineer, with an MSc in Machine Learning and Data Science, currently undertaking an industrial PhD on Multimodal Sentiment Analysis at the University of Athens, Athena R.C. (Archimedes Hub & ILSP) & palowise.ai. Thus, he currently explores how multimodal cognition may feed sentiment analysis algorithms.

 Konstantinos Chaldaiopoulos

Konstantinos Chaldaiopulos

Research Associate

Konstantinos is an AI Engineer with an MSc in Artificial Intelligence, specializing in Generative AI Technologies. He works as an NLP Engineer at HP, where his role focuses on creating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) pipelines. His current research explores the transfer learning abilities of human visual saliency prediction models.

Vassiliki Moutzouri

Vassiliki moutzouri

REsearch Associate

Vassiliki is a Computational Linguist, with an MSc in Language Technology and substantial working experience as professional content writer, editor and translator. She has conducted a large-scale systematic review on Cooking Action Datasets in AI and Robotics and currently continues her research on the reusability of Goal-directed Action Datasets.

faY poulou

graduate student

Fay is a Computational Linguist, currently finishing her MSc in Language Technology. She works in Ampersand (&) Learning & Technology as an instructor of robotics and STEM for primary and secondary education students. She has undertaken an Internship in ILSP/Athena R.C.  on computational morphology (Universal Dependencies). Her ongoing research is related to Embodied Learning and in particular to the automatic detection of cognitive load in spontaneous speech.

Aggelos sotirchos

graduate student

Aggelos is a Product and Systems Design Engineer, currently finishing his Master in Science Degree in this subject, at the University of the Aegean. His research focusses on Embodied Cognition and Cognitive Complexity. In the Lab, he is exploring the hypothesis that basic level categorization applies also to action-related concepts . 

Giorgos Kordonis

graduate student

Giorgos is a Senior Software Engineer with a long industrial experience, currently working in Qualco while also pursuing an MSc in Language Technology. In this framework, he focusses on implementing a Minimalist Grammar of Action API for unified access to Cooking Action Datasets in AI and Robotics. 

artemis chardouveli

graduate student

Artemis is a Computational Linguist currently finishing an MSc in Language Technology. She has substantial working experience in Clinical Operations and Quality Assurance Testing,  including cases of leveraging machine learning for early detection of neurodegenerative and psychiatric diseases based on speech. Her ongoing research addresses the creative industries and actually involves the automatic development of multimodal knowledge graphs of Street Art. 

anna eleftheriou

graduate student

Anna is a French Language and Linguistics graduate, currently pursuing an MSc in Language Technology. She has substantial experience in translating multiword terms. Her ongoing research focuses on Embodied Concepts and in particular on their translation challenges from Greek to English and French and what these may denote for the definition of Embodiment. 

Andreas Lekkas

graduate student

 Andreas is a Computational Linguist finishing an MSc in Language Technology. His working experience lies in Business Customer Care in the Telecommunications Industry. His current research focuses on the use of Generative AI for developing dynamic non-player character (NPC) dialogue scripts based on a player’s in-game actions or responses. 

Alexandra Roussopoulou

aleksandra rousopoulou

graduate student

Alexandra is a Computational Linguist currently finishing her MSc in Language Technology. She has substantial working experience as an IT service logistics supervisor. Her research experience involves development and annotation of Question-Answering Datasets. Her ongoing research focuses on the use of Generative AI for Knowledge Acquisition in Robotics.

Iro Tyrokomaki

graduate student

Iro is a Computational Linguist, currently finishing her MSc in Language Technology. Her ongoing research focuses on Verbal  Categorisation and Rosch’s Basic Level theory and in particular, she is exploring the hypothesis that basic level categorization applies also to feature-related concepts.

aleksandra Saivanidou

graduate student

Alexandra is a Speech Engineer in Vodafone, currently finishing her MSc in Language Technology. She has worked as a research assistant at the Psycholinguistics & Neurolinguistics Lab of the University of Athens, in projects related to Aphasic discourse and language features in Autism, as well as on children’s language, rythm and cognitive abilities. She has also been an intern in ILSP/Athena R.C. working on a Modern Greek Hate Speech project. Following up along these lines, her ongoing research focuses on employing cognitive methods for the automatic detection of misogynistic memes.

Andriana Dagla

Graduate student

 Andriana is a Linguist currently finishing an MSc in Language Technology. She has research experience in dialectology. Her ongoing research involves the extension and verbal-deception related annotation of a dataset on high stake, real-life, criminal cases. 

Eleni Karadimou

graduate student

Eleni is a Computational Linguist, currently finishing an MSc in Language Technology. Her ongoing research focuses developing Inclusive Language Recommender systems.

Ioanna Skouvara

graduate student

Ioanna is a Linguist specialised in Languages of the Southeastern Mediterranean, currently finishing her MSc in Language Technology. Her ongoing research focuses on the use of Generative AI for Social Story Generation targeted to children and adults in the spectrum.

notable  alumni

  • Argiro Vatakis (2008-2016) – Associate Professor of Psychology at Panteion University
  • Panagiotis Dimitrakis (2008-2017) – CTO in SentiGeek.
  • Maria Lada (2008-2017) –  Professor of Greek Philology at PIERCE College, American College of Greece
  • Giorgos Karakatsiotis (2009-2013) – Co-Founder and Lead Engineer in LightBuzz.
  • Dimitris Mavroeidis (2010-2017) – Head of Artificial Intelligence Innovation at Profile Software.
  • Vassiliki Efstathiou (2013-2017) – Data Science Manager at Kpler/MarineTraffic.
  • Paschalis Veskos (2013-2016) – Head of Space Industry projects at Software Competitiveness International S.A.
  • Lorenzo Gregori (2017, Visiting PostDoc on Multimodal Knowledge Representation) –  Researcher at the University of Florence, Italy. 
  • Eleni Antonakaki (2022-2023, Graduate Student on Detecting Verbal Deception) – Digital Copywriter in Sheepfish.
  • Athina Savvinidou (2022-2023, Graduate Student on Misogyny Detection) – Product Manager and Computational Linguist at Novelcore.