Ion Androutsopoulos is Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), and head of AUEB's Natural Language Processing (NLP) Group. He holds a Diploma (MEng) in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (1991), an MSc in Information Technology/Knowledge Based Systems from the University of Edinburgh (1992), and a PhD in Artificial Intelligence from the University of Edinburgh (1996).  Before joining AUEB in 2002, he worked as a research scientist in what is now the Centre for Language Technology of Macquarie University in Sydney (1996-97), and the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications of NCSR "Demokritos" (1998-2002). His current research interests include: biomedical question answering; natural language generation from medical images; text classification, including filtering toxic content; information extraction and opinion mining, including legal text analytics and sentiment analysis; deep learning for NLP; NLP in the digital humanities.

RESEARCH AREAS

Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing