Summary
Ismini Lourentzou is an Assistant Professor and leader of the Perception and LANguage (PLAN) Lab at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, with 11 years of experience at the intersection of machine learning, AI, and data science. Her research centers on data-quality challenges—learning with limited or imperfect supervision, self-supervision, zero-shot and adversarial methods—and multi-modal vision+language problems applied to biomedical imaging, embodied AI, and text-to-video generation. She has a strong track record bridging academia and industry, including research roles at Virginia Tech and IBM Almaden, and transdisciplinary collaborations spanning health informatics, genomics, education, manufacturing, and social computing. Known for building intelligent task assistants that augment human decision-making, she combines rigorous PhD-level research with practical systems thinking and an unusual early background in banking and business administration that informs her multidisciplinary approach.
11 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.), Computer Science at Athens University of Economics and Business
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Business Administration and Management, General at Technological Educational Institute of Athens
English, French, Greek