Giannis Karamanolakis
Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolGiannis Karamanolakis is a Senior Applied Scientist at Amazon AGI in New York with a decade of experience bridging ML research and production systems. He holds a PhD from Columbia University and focuses on making model teaching more efficient by enabling richer human–machine interactions beyond costly standard labeling. His work spans NLP, information extraction, and semi-/weakly-supervised learning, with papers and systems (e.g., ASTRA, WALNUT, TXtract) that have influenced both academic benchmarks and Amazon’s product knowledge graph. Prior roles include research internships at Microsoft and applied science internships at Amazon where his models were integrated into large-scale product pipelines. He also brings cross-domain experience from audio, speech emotion recognition, and music information retrieval, reflecting a rare blend of language and audio ML expertise. Colleagues value him for translating rigorous research into deployable systems that reduce annotation overhead while improving model utility.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Columbia UniversityMaster of Engineering - MEng Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
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Github Skills (46)
weakly-supervised-learning10
nlp8
computer-vision8
natural-language-processing8
reinforcement-learning8
data-quality8
nltk7
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
science7
python7
weak-supervision6
distilbert6
data-science6
react5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
gkaramanolakis/gkaramanolakis.github.io
Dec 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:217 commits, 197 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
gkaramanolakis/SpacySpanBERT
Feb 2021 - Feb 2022
Code for using and evaluating SpanBERT.
Contributions:23 commits, 22 pushes in 1 year
spanbertpythonmachine-learning
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