Eleftherios Avramidis
Scientific Director at Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI)
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolEleftherios Avramidis is a Scientific Director and senior AI researcher based in Berlin with ~14–17 years of experience specializing in NLP and Neural Machine Translation, including PhD-level work in quality estimation. He combines deep learning expertise, rigorous evaluation of generative systems (LLMs and MT) and fine-grained test-suite design with hands-on engineering and project leadership at DFKI and his recent role at alangu GmbH. A rare advocate for sign language technologies, he has advanced multi-modal translation, glossing, and facial/body modelling, while also building corpora and augmentation pipelines. His work is recognized with multiple publication awards, a solid H-index and sustained involvement organizing WMT shared tasks and reviewing for top conferences. Comfortable across academia, industry partnerships and funding acquisition, he mentors junior researchers and teaches across Berlin universities.
14 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Quality Estimation in Machine Translation, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Quality Estimation in Machine Translation at Universität des SaarlandesMSc Artificial Intelligence, MSc Artificial Intelligence at The University of EdinburghDegree Applied Informatics, Degree Applied Informatics at University of MacedoniaDoctoral Research Machine Translation; Computational Linguistics, Doctoral Research Machine Translation; Computational Linguistics at University of Potsdamexchange program Software Engineering; Compilers, exchange program Software Engineering; Compilers at Växjö University
Spanish, English, German, Greek
Github Skills (146)
rel10
nmt10
translation10
encoder-decoder10
quest9
moses9
machine-translation9
geocoding9
localization9
nlp9
php-fpm9
word-segmentation9
attention-mechanism9
barracuda9
neural-machine-translation9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
lefterav/qualitative
Apr 2013 - Jan 2018
Software of Quality Estimation for Machine Translation ouput using machine learning trained on human selections
Contributions:2205 commits, 64 pushes, 13 branches in 4 years 10 months
nlpmachine-translationtranslationmachine-learningnmt
DFKI-NLP/mt-testsuite
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
Contributions:12 commits, 8 pushes in 9 months
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