Stavros Vassos
Co-founder & CTO at helvia.ai
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolStavros Vassos is a seasoned AI researcher-turned-founder with 19 years of experience building enterprise-grade conversational AI and interactive digital experiences. As co-founder and current CTO of Helvia.ai, he directs the GenAI roadmap and transforms cutting-edge LLM research into scalable production platforms for CX and EX. His background spans academia—PhD from University of Toronto and roles as assistant/adjunct professor—and industry leadership, blending rigorous knowledge representation and planning expertise with product-focused engineering. Prior roles include architecting interactive retail experiences at LiateR and leading EO data-model research on an EU FP7 project, showcasing a knack for applying AI to real-world physical-digital systems. He is particularly skilled at abstracting complex GenAI ecosystems into manageable architectures that enable reliable, automated digital workers. Based in Athens, Stavros pairs deep academic foundations with a pragmatic founder’s instinct for shipping impactful AI solutions.
19 years of coding experience
21 years of employment as a software developer
Electrical and Computer Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)Ph.D., Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Ph.D., Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence at University of TorontoDiploma, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Diploma, Electrical and Computer Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
English, German, Greek, Italian
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Github Skills (2)
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Github contributions (5)
mihalispap/simple-fps-pddl
Dec 2011 - Mar 2012
Contributions:6 commits in 2 months
souvou/games-sapienza
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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