NEWS
BabyLM Challenge Award at EMNLP 2025 Workshop!
17 November 2025
Researchers Despoina Kosmopoulou, Efthymios Georgiou, Vaggelis Dorovatas, Georgios Paraskevopoulos, and Alexandros Potamianos from Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece, from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, the University of Bern, Switzerland and the Institute of Language and Signal Processing (ILSP) of the Athena Research Center, Greece, received the BabyLM Challenge Award (Strict track) for NLP tasks at "The First BabyLM Workshop: Accelerating Language Modeling Research with Cognitively Plausible Datasets", which took place in Suzhou, China, during the 30th Annual Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2025).
Two Best Paper Awards at BIBE 2025
12 November 2025
Researchers from the Archimedes Unit of the Athena Research Center, Greece, together with researchers from the Computer Science Department of the University of Crete, Greece; Stelios M. Smirnakis, Associate Neurologist at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, USA and Associate Professor at Harvard Medical School, USA; and Maria Papadopouli, Professor of Computer Science at the University of Crete, Greece, Affiliated Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science, FORTH, Crete, Greece and Lead Researcher at Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece, received two Best Paper Awards at the 25th annual IEEE International Conference on Bioinformatics and Bioengineering (BIBE 2025), which took place on November 6-8, 2025 in Athens, Greece.
10 Papers Accepted at EMNLP 2025!
5 November 2025
The Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) is a major annual conference for researchers in natural language processing, machine learning, and artificial intelligence. It has been organized by the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) Special Interest Group on Data (SIGDAT) since 1996 and is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year.
Archimedes Seminar by Mark Girolami, Chief Scientist of the Alan Turing Institute, UK
27 October 2025
On Friday 7 November, 2025, from 1:00 pm to 2:00 pm, at the Archimedes Amphitheatre (1 Artemidos Street, 15125, Marousi, Archimedes, Athena Research Center, Greece), Mark Girolami, Sir Kirby Laing Professor of Civil Engineering within the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge, UK, where he also holds the Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Data Centric Engineering, and Chief Scientist of the Alan Turing Institute, UK, will deliver an Archimedes Seminar on "Statistical Finite Element Methods."
