team members
katerina pastra
head
“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…“
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.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
faY poulou
graduate student
Fay is a Computational Linguist, currently finishing her MSc in Language Technology. She was an Intern in ILSP/Athena R.C. working on computational morphology in the framework of Universal Dependencies. Her ongoing research is related to Embodied Learning and in particular to the automatic detection of cognitive load in spontaneous speech.
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 analysis of multimodal 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.
aleksandra rousopoulou
graduate student
Alexandra is a Computational Linguist currently finishing her MSc in Language Technology. She has substantial working experience on Educational Event Management and Marketing Strategies. Her ongoing research focuses on the use of Generative AI for Knowledge Acquisition in Robotics.
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.
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 was 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 on the Evaluation of Large Language Models in Complex Question-Answering tasks.
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.