ABOUT
Professional Appointments
Research Scientist, HCI, Machine Learning, HFE - GN Group
Postdoctoral Research Fellow - University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA, 2019-Present
Graduate Research/Teaching Assistant - University of Texas at Arlington, USA, 2014-2019
Research Engineer Intern - Toshiba Cambridge Research Labs, Speech Technology Group, UK, Summer 2018
Research Associate - NCSR "Demokritos", Greece, 2014-2017
Undergraduate Intern - Telecommunications Research Institute, Chania, Crete
Invited Talks
“Multimodal machine learning in assistive technologies”, November 2021, University of Texas at Arlington - Michalis Papakostas
“Multimodal machine learning in assistive technologies”, March 2021, GN Hearing - Michalis Papakostas
“Multi-modal monitoring of driver’s state”, November 2020, University of Texas at Arlington - Michalis Papakostas
“Multi-modal behavioral modeling in assistive technologies: Enhancing human performance through sensorial sensing”, September 2020, ACM CHI Chicago Chapter, Chicago, USA - Michalis Papakostas [video]
"Towards End-to-End Neural Networks for Dialogue System Design", August 2018, Toshiba Research Limited @ Language Technology Group, Cambridge, UK - Michalis Papakostas
"A Robot-Based Cyberlearning System for Vocational Skill Assessment and Training ", December 2017, MIT Media Lab @ Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA), Boston, USA - Konstantinos Tsiakas & Michalis Papakostas
"Image & Audio based Applications using Deep Learning" , January 2017 , ATHENA Research Center @ Institute of Language & Speech Processing (ILSP), Athens, Greece - Michalis Papakostas
"Deep Learning Applications for Understanding Human Behavior", August 2016, NCSR Demokritos @ Institute for Informatics & Telecommunications, AThens, Greece - Michalis Papakostas
Honors & Awards
Outstanding Paper Award (Honorable Mention), IUI Conference, April 2021, "Understanding Driving Distractions: A Multimodal Approach to Distraction Detection and Recognition.", College Station, TX, USA, 2021
Outstanding Doctoral Student Award by the University of Texas at Arlington (1000$), 2019
Graduate Scholarship Award for Academic Excellence by the Gerondelis Foundation (5000$), 2018
STEM Fellowship, 2014 - 2018
NSF Travel Award for 10th PETRA International Conference, 2017
Best Student Paper Award, IUI Conference, March 2017, "CogniLearn: A Deep Learning-based Interface for Cognitive Behavior Assessment", Limassol , Cyprus, 2017
SIGAI Student Travel Grant for IUI 2017
NSF Travel Award for 9th PETRA International Conference, 2016
Best Project Award, International Research Summer School, NCSR Demokritos, "I Spy: An Interactive Game-based Approach to Multimodal Robot Learning ", NCSR Demokritos, Athens, Greece, 2014
NSF Travel Award for 7th PETRA, 2014
Activities
Program Committee , 2nd International Workshop on Natural Language Processing Beyond Text, NLPBT 2021
Workshops Chair, ACM PETRA 2021
Co-Organizer, 2nd International Workshop on Robotic Sensing in Human-Robot Interaction, ACM PETRA 2020
AI Seminar Coordinator, AI Lab, Department of Computer Science, University of Michigan, 2019-2020
Program Committee, 1st International Workshop on Pervasive Intelligence, EANN 2019
Co-organiser IPERFORM - Center for Assistive Technologies to Enhance Human Performance, 2014-2019
HCI Seminar Tutor to High School students, NCSR Demokritos , 2016-2017
Organizing Committee ACM PETRA International Conference, 2014-2016
Important Collaborators
Rada Mihalcea | AI Lab Director & Professor, Department of Computer Science & Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan | mihalcea@umich.edu
Fillia Makedon | Jenkins-Garrett Professor, Department of Computer Sciences & Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington | makedon@uta.edu
Vangelis Karkaletsis | Director of the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications & Head of the Software and Knowledge Engineering Lab, NCSR "Demokritos" vangelis@iit.demokritos.gr
Vassilis Athitsos | Associate Professor, Department of Computer Sciences & Engineering, University of Texas at Arlington | athitsos@uta.edu
Mohamed Abouelenien | Assistant Professor, Department of Computer & Information Sciences, University of Michigan-Dearborn | zmohamed@umich.edu
Mihai Burzo | Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering,University of Michigan-Flint | mburzo@umich.edu
Evangelos Spyrou | Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science,University of Thessaly, Greece | Senior Researcher, Computational Intelligence Lab, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications , NCSR "Demokritos" | espyrou@uth.gr
Theodoros Giannakopoulos | Machine Learning Director, Behavioral Signals |Senior Researcher, Computational Intelligence Lab, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications, NCSR "Demokritos" | tyiannak@gmail.com
Alexandros Papangelis | Senior Research Engineer, Uber AI Research Labs | apapangelis@uber.com
Konstantinos Tsiakas | Postoctoral Researcher, Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Eindhoven | konstantinos.tsiakas@yale.edu