Sokratis Sofianopoulos (Dr.)
Software Engineer / Researcher, Athena RC
Sokratis Sofianopoulos received his Diploma in Computer Science from the University of Ioannina in 2002. His PhD thesis, titled "Language Modelling for Machine Translation Systems employing monolingual corpora" was awarded by the National Technical University of Athens in 2010. Since 2005, he is a research associate at the Institute for Language and Speech Processing, Athena RC. He has actively participated in multiple research projects focusing on Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Machine Translation, while also teaching graduate and undergraduate courses on on machine learning, artificial intelligence and object-oriented programming. He has co-authored numerous journal and conference publications and has also served as a reviewer in conferences such as LREC, EAMT and COLING. His research interests are language modelling, machine translation, deep learning and evolutionary computation.