George Pantazopoulos

George Pantazopoulos

PhD Candidate

Heriot-Watt University

Hello

I am a third year PhD student in the CDT in Robotics and Autonomous Systems at the Edinburgh Center for Robotics. supervised by Arash Esghi and Alessandro Suglia. My work focuses on multimodal natural language processing. More specifically, I am interested in vision & language generative models with a focus on multitask learning and embodied agents. I am particularly excited about methods that equip vision & language models with fine and coarse grained understanding skills but also teaching agents to act in dynamic environments from static data.

Education
  • PhD in Artificial Intelligence, 2021

    Heriot-Watt University

  • MSc in Artificial Intelligence with Speech and Multimodal Interaction, 2020

    Heriot-Watt University

  • BSc & MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, 2018

    National Technical University of Athens

Industry Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Machine Learning Engineer
September 2018 – April 2020 Athens
  • Developed audio and text models for emotion recognition
  • Carried out research in active learning pipeline to address class imbalances
  • Contributed to the implementation of voice activity detection algorithms
  • Contributed to real-time systems for emotion and hesitation recognition
  • Established data collection pipelines
  • Implemented audio annotation and visualization tools