Andreas Vlachidis
Deputy Head Of Department Of Information Studies
Greater Cardiff Area United Kingdom
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Top SchoolAndreas Vlachidis is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head of Department of Information Studies at UCL with nine years of higher-education experience bridging Information Science, NLP and semantic technologies. He leads interdisciplinary research in information extraction, semantic data modelling and metadata, applying NLP and FAIR principles to advance data integration and interoperability across humanities, cultural heritage and social sciences. As Technical Lead of the Sloane Lab and PI on inclusive AI education projects, he combines hands-on knowledge-base development with pedagogical innovation for literacy and special-needs contexts. He also manages student welfare and departmental governance, chairing committees that shape academic policy and pastoral care. A visiting professor at the University of South Wales and frequent grant reviewer for Welsh language technology, he has a practical track record in multilingual NLP tools (including Welsh language resources) and cultural heritage semantic systems. Trained to PhD level in Computer Science, he blends scholarly rigour with applied project delivery across EU and UK research programmes.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at University of South Wales
English, GreekGithub contributions (5)
avlachid/Multilingual-NLP-for-Archaeological-Reports-Ariadne-Infrastructure
Nov 2016 - Sep 2017
Contributions:6 commits, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
avlachid/DISP-Portfolio
Oct 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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