Jerry Spanakis (G.)

My name is Gerasimos (Jerry) Spanakis. You can find a guide to my name here. 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 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
• Reseacher at the following projects: NSMD, HumanAds, RegTech4AI
• Technical expert for European Commission E-enforcement academy project (supporting Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) and Consumer Product Safety (CSN networks)
• 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