Ion (Ioannis) Androutsopoulos
Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Short Bio
Ion Androutsopoulos is Professor of Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), and co-director 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: machine learning in NLP, especially deep learning and large language models; question answering, retrieval augmented generation, multi-step reasoning for document collections; dialog systems, especially porting them to new languages and knowledge domains; sentiment analysis and emotion recognition from text and speech; improving online discussions, including detecting and handling toxic posts and disinformation, and using large language models as facilitators; image to text generation, mostly generating diagnostic tags and diagnostic reports from medical images; NLP for biomedical, legal, financial data and NLP in the digital humanities; NLP tools for Greek.
