What was your previous role before Behavioral Signals?

I was studying Electrical and Computer Engineering and doing ML & NLP research at NTUA

What is your role at Behavioral Signals?

Make machines understand emotions and behaviors through voice, a.k.a. Machine Learning Engineer

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

Converting the added value of AI models into valuable products

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

Creative work that pushes the limits of our tech capabilities, solves real problems, and provides added value to humanity

Who are your role models and mentors?

George Paraskevopoulos || Alex Potamianos || Dan Jurafsky, Christos Papadimitriou || Alan Turing || Alexandros Mavrokordatos, Winston Churchill || Claude Monet

What professional mistakes have you’ve learned most from?

Making assumptions and avoiding sanity checks ?

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

Make meaningful usage of emotional predictions

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

Challenges: fairness, transparency, privacy. Breakthrough: self-explainable models

What makes you happy?

Traveling, printed newspapers, books, walking in cities, exploring flavours

What makes you angry?

Queues, lies, unnecessary interruptions, poor food quality

What makes you dream?

Friends, literature, tech advances & REM sleep

What makes you get up and moooooove?

Andromeda + Pechlivanis, by Thanasis Papakonstatinou

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

“ckarouzos” ?

Can procrastination be useful?

We’ll see…

Post-its OR whiteboards?

A4 printing paper white sheets and journal notebooks

Tea or coffee?

The italian way: “Un caffè normale per favore”

Food you never get bored eating?

Seafood and medium rare steaks

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

Pericles’ Funeral Oration || Le citta invisibili || L’ Étranger || A Farewell to Arms || The last lecture

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

Thomas Melistas