Epameinondas Antonakos
Senior Applied Science Manager, AI For Elevated Shopping
Berlin, Germany
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Top SchoolEpameinondas Antonakos is a senior applied science leader with 12 years of experience building and scaling AI teams across GenAI, computer vision, and robotics, currently leading a 15-person group at Amazon focused on premium and luxury shopping experiences. He combines deep research pedigree (PhD-level training) with product-first execution, having single-handedly driven cross-functional launches from prototype to production—examples include barcode-free product identification for robotics and a next-gen GenAI virtual try-on for beauty. A hands-on manager and coach, he has repeatedly delivered first-of-their-kind systems such as image machine translation that preserves visual context and AR shopping demos showcased at high-profile events. Based in Berlin, he co-founded the menpo computer vision community and blends academic rigor with a bias for practical, at-scale solutions that bridge perception, language, and agentic AI orchestration.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Imperial College LondonDiploma, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Diploma, Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
English, French, Greek
Github Skills (38)
python10
image-processing10
statistics10
machine-learning10
visualize10
computer-vision10
menpo10
widgets9
notebook9
jupyterlab9
jupyterlab-extension9
jupyter-notebook9
jupyter8
marker7
surface7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nontas/menpo
Jan 2015 - Dec 2017
Contributions:315 pushes, 57 branches in 2 years 11 months
statisticspythonvisualizestatisticalmachine-learning
nontas/menpo3d
Feb 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:39 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 7 months
meshesmanipulating-3d-meshesmenpo
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