Jerry Spanakis (G.)

Currently, I am an assistant professor at the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences (DACS) and at Maastricht Law+Tech Lab (Faculty of Law), at Maastricht University (UM) in the Netherlands. My current work/research lies in the area His current work lies in the area of Social Computing and includes computational social media modeling, dialogue systems (conversational agents) and information retrieval, topic detection and tracking from text data and pattern discovery from multimodal data sources. More specifically, I am interested into using Large Language Models (like chatGPT) in a controlled way and build useful applications that have added value for all relevant stakeholders.

Current roles/contributions:

Fun fact: You can find a guide to my name here.

Expertises
  • Machine Learning
  • Data Mining
  • Text Mining
  • Information Retrieval
  • Topic Models
  • Neural Networks
  • Deep Learning
  • Recommender Systems
Career history
  • 2016-today     Assistant Professor
    Department of Advanced Computing Sciences
    Maastricht University
  • 2014-2016     Postdoctoral Researcher
    Department of Data Science and Knowledge Engineering
    Maastricht University
  • 2013-2014     Adjunct Lecturer 
    School of Production Engineering and Management
    Technical University of Crete
  • 2013-2014     Scientific Associate
    Department of Music Technology and Acoustics Engineering
    Technological Institute of Crete
  • 2012-2013     Software Engineer/Army service: Maintenance, update, development of the army personnel software system
    Centre of Information Technology Support
  • 2007-2012     PhD researcher in Computational Intelligence
    School of Electrical & Computer Engineering
    National Technical University of Athens