Nikolaos Malandrakis
Research Scientist at Meta
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolNikolaos Malandrakis is a research scientist with 8 years of experience specializing in automatic information extraction from text, particularly perceptual and behavioral signals. Based in San Jose, he has progressed from applied scientist roles at Amazon Alexa and Amazon AGI to a research scientist position at Meta, blending production ML deployment with deep research. His academic foundation includes a Ph.D. in Computer Science from USC and earlier degrees in computer engineering, reflecting strong theoretical grounding alongside practical engineering. Past work ranges from mobile signal-processing projects to emotion recognition from non-speech sounds, revealing a long-standing interest in perceptual computing beyond typical NLP tasks. Colleagues know him for bridging rigorous research methodologies with product-minded implementation, often surfacing subtle behavioral cues in unstructured text. He brings both curiosity and a track record of shipping applied research in large-scale industry settings.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaMaster’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree, Computer Engineering at Polytechnion KritisBachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 7.01/10, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, 7.01/10 at Technical University of Crete
English, GreekGithub contributions (1)
usc-sail/lorelei-speech-evaluation
Jul 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes in 4 months
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