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Education
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Ph.D. in Computer Science
August 2021 -- Present
Advisor: Prof. Shri Narayanan
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
M.Sc. in Computer Science
August 2021 -- Present
Current GPA: 4.0 / 4.0
Coursework: CSCI-670 (Advanced Analysis of Algorithms), PSYC-626 (Computational Social Sciences),
... CSCI-699 (Grounding Natural Language), CSCI-534 (Affective Computing),
... EE-546 (Mathematics of High-Dimensional Data; on-going)
National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Joint B.Sc. & M.Eng. in Electrical & Computer Engineering
September 2015 -- October 2020 (5yrs)
Major: Computer Science
Cumulative GPA: 9.56 / 10
Thesis: Using Artificial Neural Networks for Zero-shot Learning
Advisor: Prof. Alexandros Potamianos
Selected Coursework: Neural Networks and Intelligent Systems, Pattern Recognition, Computer Vision,
... Advanced Computer Architecture, Advanced Algorithms, Distributed Systems, Information Theory,
... Advanced Topics in Databases, Operating Systems Laboratory, Robotics I: Analysis-Control-Laboratory

Work Experience
Amazon Web Services, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.
Applied Science intern
May 2024 -- August 2024 (3mos)
Pending...
Amazon Web Services, Santa Clara, CA, U.S.A.
Applied Science intern
May 2023 -- August 2023 (3mos)
Duties: Developed methods for robustness in audio-visual representation learning.
Behavioral Signal Technologies, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Machine Learning engineer
December 2020 -- July 2021 (6mos)
Duties: Speech Diarization in phone calls, Feature engineering and modeling of speakers in phone calls
SCiO P.C., Athens, Greece
Machine Learning intern
July 2019 -- August 2019 (2mos)
Duties: Feature Engineering and Predictive Modeling for rice production in India
Body of Work: code
Supervisor: Dr. Pythagoras Karampiperis
Research Experience
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Graduate Research Assistant at the Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab
May 2021 -- Present
Duties: Multilingual & Multimodal Affective Analysis on Social Media
... Resurrected and running the reading group of the lab with 15-20 active members
... Actively mentoring undergraduate and graduate students
... IEEE K-12 Outreach programs: Presented in Spring 22 to 90 students, *Team Lead* in Fall 22 for approx. 90 students
... Google ExploreCSR: Student mentor in Spring 23 to 50 students
Advisor: Prof. Shri Narayanan
National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
Undergraduate Research assistant at the Speech and Language Processing group
March 2020 -- November 2020 (9mos)
Duties: Sample-efficient Learning research
Body of Work: paper (preprint) with code
Advisor: Prof. Alexandros Potamianos
Demokritos National Center for Scientific Research, Athens, Greece
Research intern at the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications
October 2019 -- June 2020 (9mos)
Duties: Remote Sensing applications of Computer Vision and Deep Learning
Body of Work: paper with code
Advisor: Dr. Eleni Charou

Honors & Awards
Gerondelis Foundation
2023 -- 2024
Scholarship
NeurIPS 2022
Top reviewer
National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
2019 -- 2020
Highest GPA in school of ECE, Thomaidis Foundation Grant
National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
2020
Publication Award, Thomaidis Foundation Grant

Publications

Leveraging Label Correlations in a Multi-label Setting: A Case Study in Emotion

Chochlakis, Georgios, Gireesh Mahajan, Sabyasachee Baruah, Keith Burghardt, Kristina Lerman, and Shrikanth Narayanan. "Leveraging label correlations in a multi-label setting: A case study in emotion." In ICASSP 2023-2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP), pp. 1-5. IEEE, 2023.


Languages

🇬🇷 Greek (Native), 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 English (Fluent), 🇫🇷 French (Paris-Sorbonne C1), 🇪🇸 Spanish (Elementary)

Skills

Miscellaneous