SHORT BIO

Alexandros Barmperis holds a Diploma (MEng) in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and is a PhD candidate at NTUA’s Laboratory of Biomedical Engineering (BEL). He is also an academic fellow at the Archimedes research unit of the Athena Research Center, Greece. His academic performance has been distinguished with many awards, including an honorary prize from the President of the Hellenic Republic for his top ranking in the nationwide university entrance examinations.

Alexandros has gained valuable research experience through internships at the European Space Agency (ESA) and the National Centre for Scientific Research “Demokritos”, as well as through R&D activities at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS) and the Foundation for Research and Technology – Hellas (FORTH). Across these roles, he has worked on computer vision and large language model applications; more specifically, his work has included semantic segmentation of planetary surfaces, computer vision for robotics, image generation of auto parts using cGANs, and LLM-based assistants for public-sector services.

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Alexandros’ research interests lie at the intersection of artificial intelligence, biomedical engineering and computational neuroscience. His current work focuses on deep-learning methods for segmentation and analysis of 3D medical images, aiming to build accurate and data-efficient models for clinical decision support. He is also interested in neuroscience-inspired machine learning, including stimulus decoding from large-scale neural population recordings and the decomposition of mouse primary visual cortex (V1) activity into interpretable latent components.