George Giannakopoulos

George Giannakopoulos is a Research Fellow at the National Center for Scientific Research "Demokritos" in Athens, Greece, with over 15 years of experience in Artificial Intelligence. He contributes to two MSc programs in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence, while leading the international MultiLing community on multilingual summarization.

• Education:
  • BSc in Informatics and Telecommunications (2005), National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
  • PhD in Artificial Intelligence (2009), University of the Aegean
• Research Focus:
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Machine Learning
  • Graph Methods
  • Biomedical Informatics
• Notable Projects:
  • Co-founder of SciFY, a non-profit technology transfer organization
  • Lead developer of NewSum AI summarization suite
  • Contributor to EU's AI4EU platform

Scientific Contributions: With 60+ publications and 700+ citations, he has pioneered n-gram graph methods in NLP and supervised over 30 students. His work spans biomedical analysis, serious games, and open science advocacy.