archimedes-Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, Algorithms-greece

 
Artificial Intelligence
 
Data Science
 
Algorithms

Athens NLP 2025 Summer School

athnlp_2025
Dates
2025-09-04 - 2025-09-10
Venue
NCSR Demokritos campus, Athens, Greece
Website
https://athnlp.github.io/2025/index.html

Following on from the success of the 1st and 2nd AthNLP school in 2019 and 2024 respectively, AthNLP 2025 will take place at the campus of NCSR Demokritos in Athens and is organised jointly by NCSR Demokritos, the Athens University of Economics and Business, Athena Research Center, Greece, and Heriot-Watt University, UK.

AthNLP cooperates closely with the organisers of LxMLS, taking place in Lisbon, in July 19-25.

The school will cover a range of NLP topics focusing on machine learning (ML) methods. There will be morning lectures focusing on theoretical aspects, afternoon lab sessions focusing on implementation and experimentation, and evening talks on research topics and perspectives, as well as demos and posters from the participants. The lectures and the evening talks will be given by internationally recognized researchers from academic and industrial research labs. The topics to be covered include: classification, sequence prediction, linear models, neural networks, encoder-decoder architectures, machine translation, large language models, and multimodality.

Our target audience is:

* Researchers and graduate students in the fields of NLP and Computational Linguistics;

* Computer scientists who have interests in natural language processing and machine learning;

* Industry practitioners who desire a more in-depth understanding of these subjects.

While previous experience with the topics will be helpful, the school assumes no previous knowledge of natural language processing and machine learning. The only background assumed is basic mathematics and Python programming.

Features of AthNLP:

* Attendance at the Social Event, daily lunch as well as morning and afternoon coffee breaks are included in the application fee.

* Lecturers are leading researchers in machine learning and natural language processing.

* Students will be able to (optionally) show their current work in poster sessions during coffee breaks.

* In the demo day, students will be able to interact with technical companies and research institutions working in machine learning.


Confirmed Speakers

* Antonis Anastasopoulos, George Mason University, USA, and Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece

* Yulan He, King's College London, UK

* Raquel Fernández, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

* Ryan McDonald, ASAPP, USA

* Preslav Nakov, MBZUAI, Abu Dhabi, UAE

* Vlad Niculae, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

* Anna Rogers, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

 
 

Vision

To position Greece as a leading player in AI and Data Science

image
image

Mission

To build an AI Excellence Hub in Greece where the international research community can connect, groundbreaking ideas can thrive, and the next generation of scientists emerges, shaping a brighter future for Greece and the world

 

Welcome to ARCHIMEDES, a vibrant research hub connecting the global AI and Data Science research community fostering groundbreaking research in Greece and beyond. Its dedicated core team, comprising lead researchers, affiliated researchers, Post-Docs, PhDs and interns, is committed to advancing basic and applied research in Artificial Intelligence and its supporting disciplines, including Algorithms, Statistics, Learning Theory, and Game Theory organized around 8 core research areas. By collaborating with Greek and Foreign Universities and Research Institutes, ARCHIMEDES disseminates its research findings fostering knowledge exchange and providing enriching opportunities for students. Leveraging AI to address real-world challenges, ARCHIMEDES promotes innovation within the Greek ecosystem and extends its societal impact. Established in January 2022, as a research unit of the Athena Research Center with support from the Committee Greece 2021, ARCHIMEDES is funded for its first four years by the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF).

 
 

NEWS

 
Archimedes Seminar by Michael I. Jordan on

Archimedes Seminar by Michael I. Jordan on "Nonnegative Supermartingales, Sequential Testing, and Statistical Contract Theory"

28 January 2026

On Tuesday 10 February, 2026, from 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm, at the Archimedes Amphitheatre (1 Artemidos Street, 15125, Marousi, Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece), Michael I. Jordan (Researcher at Inria Paris, France, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, and in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, will deliver an Archimedes Seminar on "Nonnegative Supermartingales, Sequential Testing, and Statistical Contract Theory."

Archimedes Talk by Jason Milionis on

Archimedes Talk by Jason Milionis on "From Myerson to Automated Markets: New Research Directions in Exchange Design"

25 January 2026

On Wednesday 28 January, 2026, from 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm, at the Archimedes Amphitheatre (1 Artemidos Street, 15125, Marousi, Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece), Jason Milionis, a 5th and final year Ph.D. candidate in the Computer Science Department at Columbia University, USA, and a Senior Researcher at Category Labs, will deliver an Archimedes talk on "From Myerson to Automated Markets: New Research Directions in Exchange Design."

Archimedes Talk by Dimitris Giovanis on

Archimedes Talk by Dimitris Giovanis on "Learning the “Right” Space for Data-driven Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification in Complex / Multiscale Systems"

20 January 2026

On Wednesday 4 February, 2026, from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, at the Archimedes Amphitheatre (1 Artemidos Street, 15125, Marousi, Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece), Professor Dimitris Giovanis, Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Civil and Systems Engineering, The Johns Hopkins University, USA, and fellow of the Hopkins Extreme Materials Institute, a member of the Center on Artificial Intelligence for Materials in Extreme Environments, the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science, the Johns Hopkins Mathematical Institute for Data Science, and the Data Science and AI Institute, will deliver an Archimedes talk on "Learning the “Right” Space for Data-driven Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification in Complex / Multiscale Systems."

Director Timos Sellis Moderates a Panel on AI and Health Policy

Director Timos Sellis Moderates a Panel on AI and Health Policy

8 January 2026

On Thursday, 11 December 2025, during the 2025 Panhellenic Congress on Health Economics and Policy, Professor Timos Sellis moderated an expert panel on ¨How AI May Transform Healthcare and Health Policies” and exchanged views with Professor Costas Athanassakis, Professor Theoklis Zaoutis, Dr. Georgios Papanastasiou, and Dr. Harietta Eleftherochorinou.

Archimedes Surpasses 300 Publications

Archimedes Surpasses 300 Publications

5 January 2026

Archimedes Unit of the Athena Research Center, Greece, is proud to announce that its researchers have published over 300 scientific publications in top-tier conferences (including NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML) and leading academic journals.

More news items here
 
 

The project “ARCHIMEDES Unit: Research in Artificial Intelligence, Data Science and Algorithms” with code OPS 5154714 is implemented by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan “Greece 2.0” and is funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU.

greece2.0 eu_arch_logo_en

 

Stay connected! Subscribe to our mailing list by emailing sympa@lists.athenarc.gr
with the subject "subscribe archimedes-news Firstname LastName"
(replace with your details)