What was your previous role before Behavioral Signals?

Machine Learning Engineer at NCSR Demokritos

What is your role at Behavioral Signals?

I’m an ML engineer 🤖💻🧠

What do you find most disruptive/ challenging at Behavioral Signals?

Extracting behavior from speech is one of the most challenging tasks due to the context-dependent nature of human expression

What kind of work would make you excited to get out of bed on Monday morning?

The implementation of a new and promising idea…

Who are your role models and mentors?

Marie Curie, Nikola Tesla…and Theodoros Giannakopoulos 

What professional mistakes have you learned most from?

Not asking for help/guidance when needed

What is the biggest technological challenge in Emotion AI right now?

Accurate understanding of human emotions

What is the biggest challenge for ML now? What breakthrough are you expecting in the future?

As ML models become more complex, understanding and interpreting their decisions has become more challenging

What makes you happy?

Good food

What makes you angry?

Bad food

What makes you dream?

Travelling around the world 🌍✈️🚀🗺️🧳🌴🏞️🏝️🏔️

What makes you get up and moooooove?

Good music

If you had a ‘warning’ label, what would it say in one word?

“Bizarre”

Can procrastination be useful?

Somebody once said that procrastination is like a credit card: lots of fun until you get the bill

Post-its OR whiteboards?

Post-its

Tea or coffee?

I don’t know the first word

Food you never get bored eating?

Chicken nuggets

Book or movie you would suggest for someone to read/see?

Shutter Island, by Martin Scorsese

Who are you going to tag to do this interview next?

Nikos Antoniou