Vasileios Iosifidis
Head Of AI Language Systems at DSV - Global Transport and Logistics
Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolVasileios Iosifidis is Head of AI Language Systems with nine years of experience building and scaling production-grade NLP and GenAI solutions across logistics, finance, publishing, and edtech. He blends a PhD-level research background and 25+ peer-reviewed publications with hands-on software engineering to deliver RAG, embedding retrieval, information extraction, and evaluation pipelines that drive measurable business value. Known for turning research into deployable systems, he has led enterprise AI strategy, platform design, and team enablement while mentoring engineers on software best practices and ML lifecycle rigor. He advises startups through his consultancy and maintains an applied focus on making models realistic to deploy, efficient to operate, and aligned with operational constraints. Based in Frankfurt, he brings uncommon depth in both academic ML and pragmatic enterprise delivery, evidenced by leadership roles at DSV/DB Schenker and prior research coordination across a 12-organization EU project.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Software Engineering, Master's degree, Software Engineering at University of PatrasDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence at Leibniz Universität Hannover
English, Greek, German
Github Skills (6)
autoencoder4
nlp3
natural-language-processing3
machine-learning2
deep-learning2
pytorch2
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
iosifidisvasileios/CumulativeCostBoosting
Mar 2020 - Nov 2022
Contributions:30 commits, 4 PRs, 8 pushes in 2 years 8 months
iosifidisvasileios/Large-Scale-Entity-Analysis
Mar 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:32 commits, 1 PR, 25 pushes in 11 months
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