Chris Samarinas
Research Assistant at Naget
Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolChris Samarinas is a machine learning researcher and PhD candidate in Information Retrieval at UMass Amherst with 11 years of industry and academic experience applying NLP to information retrieval, extraction, QA, knowledge graphs, and recommendation systems. He has tackled hard production and research problems across Adobe Research, multiple AI startups, and international universities, and has recent applied-science internships at Amazon and Netflix that bridge research and product impact. As founder of Naget and a hands-on research engineer, he pairs deep IR expertise—currently focused on conversational search—with practical system-building skills. His background spans research-intensive roles and engineering stints from London to Singapore, suggesting fluency in both prototype research and deployable ML solutions. Open to short-term collaborations and internships, he brings curiosity-driven exploration informed by real-world constraints and cross-cultural engineering experience.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
1st Junior High School of EfkarpiaBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst1st High School of Stavroupoli
Greek, English
Stackoverflow
21reputation
6kreached
2answers
3questions
Github Skills (42)
fact10
translation10
soundcloud10
watch9
retrieval9
sentence-transformers9
pytorch9
lda9
sentence-embeddings9
pii9
python9
machine-learning9
android9
fact-checking9
streaming9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
algoprog/rivr-search
Jan 2016 - Sep 2016
Contributions:23 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
algoprog/Quin
Jul 2020 - Aug 2021
An easy to use framework for large-scale fact-checking and question answering
Contributions:46 commits, 2 PRs, 39 pushes in 1 year
qr-bertpythonfactretrievalsquad
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