Kyriakos Polymenakos
Co-Founder And CTO at Synthesa
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolKyriakos Polymenakos is a machine learning leader and entrepreneur with 10 years of experience turning ML research into production systems, now co-founding and serving as CTO of Synthesa to accelerate evidence synthesis for healthcare by combining expert human review with large language models. He earned a PhD-level research background at the University of Oxford focused on safe reinforcement learning and policy search, and has applied that rigor to industry roles at DeepSea Technologies building ML for shipping. Comfortable spanning research and engineering, he has led teams that ship safety-conscious, real-world ML solutions and taught information-theory foundations to undergraduates. Based in Athens, he blends academic depth with hands-on product delivery and a knack for finding practical trade-offs between model scale and human expertise. An underappreciated strength is his experience in safety-critical domains—drilling optimization and maritime systems—which informs Synthesa’s healthcare-focused reliability priorities.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), CDT in AIMS - Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), CDT in AIMS - Autonomous Intelligent Machines and Systems at University of OxfordEngineer’s Degree, 6-month Erasmus Exchange Program, Engineer’s Degree, 6-month Erasmus Exchange Program at Danmarks Tekniske UniversitetMaster of Engineering (MEng), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 8.50/10, Master of Engineering (MEng), Electrical and Computer Engineering, 8.50/10 at National Technical University of AthensHigh School, High School at St. Paul College, Piraeus
English, French, Greek
Github Skills (28)
bayesian10
reinforcement-learning9
probabilistic-programming9
gaussian8
stochastic-processes8
information-theory8
machine-learning8
simulations8
gpflow8
simulation7
bayesian-statistics7
mujoco7
manifold7
gaussian-processes7
statistics7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
kyr-pol/SafePILCO_Tool-Reproducibility
Oct 2019 - May 2020
Contributions:14 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
kyr-pol/Safe-RL
Sep 2016 - Mar 2017
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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