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Petros Mitseas
Machine Learning Engineer
What was your previous role before Behavioral Signals?
I worked as a Full-stack Software Engineer for applications involving telecommunications
What is your role at Behavioral Signals?
I work as a Machine Learning Engineer
What do you find most disruptive/ challenging at Behavioral Signals?
Applying the latest advancements in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to real-life applications that help grow our clients, is a pretty major and interesting challenge
What kind of work would make you excited to get out of bed on Monday morning?
Getting to work with my team on a new idea
Who are your role models and mentors?
Steve Jobs, Akio Toyoda
What professional mistakes have you learned most from?
Overengineering: Wanting the best out of what you are making, may lead you to unnecessary overthinking, refactoring, and future-proofing. Sometimes it’s best to take it one step at a time and focus on now
What is the biggest technological challenge in Emotion AI right now?
Combining multiple modalities in predicting emotion accurately
What is the biggest challenge for ML now? What breakthrough are you expecting in the future?
Getting large models to work up to speed. Making people understand the mentality of probabilistic models over deterministic rules
What makes you happy?
A car trip, a relaxing mountain trail, or a summer evening with friends
What makes you angry?
People giving up easily… and traffic
What makes you dream?
A starry night and melodic techno
What makes you get up and moooooove?
Trying to collect new experiences and complete my goals
If you had a ‘warning’ label, what would it say in one word?
“Thrill-seeker” 😁
Can procrastination be useful?
Sometimes the brain needs some time off
Post-its OR whiteboards?
Whiteboards
Tea or coffee?
What is tea?
Food you never get bored eating?
Burgers!
Book or movie you would suggest for someone to read/see?
Ex Machina or any Christopher Nolan movie
Who are you going to tag to do this interview next?
Nikos Antoniou
