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:
- Member of the research area Cognitive Systems (at DACS/UM)
- Member of the Maastricht Law and Tech Lab
- PI for the EU project VOXReality
- Technical expert for E-enforcement academy project (EU CPC Network)
- Coordinator of MaastrichtNLP (MNLP), a reading group for NLP for the whole UM community
- Member of the I-research domain of Maastricht University
- Member of the Open Science Community Maastricht
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