Jerry Spanakis

Gerasimos (Jerry) Spanakis is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences and Maastricht Law+Tech Lab, Faculty of Law, both at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. His research focuses on Social Computing, including computational social media modeling, dialogue systems, information retrieval, and multimodal pattern discovery using Large Language Models.

• Member of Cognitive Systems research area at DACS/UM
• Member of Maastricht Law and Tech Lab
• Principal Investigator for EU project VOXReality
• Researcher for NSMD, HumanAds, RegTech4AI
• Technical expert for European Commission E-enforcement academy project
• Coordinator of MaastrichtNLP reading group

Jerry leads the supervision of bachelor's and master's theses across various computational topics and has advised numerous ongoing and completed students. His work intersects AI ethics, legal tech, and behavioral modeling, with a focus on responsible AI deployment and social bias detection in language models.

• Technical expert for European Commission
• Co-organizer of the Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP) Workshop
• Active in Open Science Community Maastricht