What was your previous role before Behavioral Signals?

Machine learning research assistant at NCSR Demokritos

What is your role at Behavioral Signals?

Machine Learning Engineer

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

Staying at the forefront of technological advancements in AI and behavioral analytics and keeping pace with evolving consumer behaviors and market demands could be challenging and disruptive in terms of ongoing innovation efforts

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

Painting, sculpture, and acting. Art is the only way to escape

Who are your role models and mentors?

Barack Obama and Malala Yousifazi

What professional mistakes have you’ve learned most from?

Persistence is not always a virtue. Neither is patience

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

Achieving higher accuracy and reliability in emotion recognition across diverse populations, cultures, and contexts. Also, real-time processing and application in real in the wild scenarios for which there is no available data. Finally, multimodal integration presents technical challenges in Emotion AI

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

ML still and always relies on data quality and quantity. That could be considered one of the biggest challenges from which arises a need for robustness and generalization. Furthermore, training sophisticated ML models requires significant computational resources, which can be expensive and environmentally taxing. Thus, improving the efficiency of model training and inference is an ongoing area of research. Finally, ensuring the interpretability and explainability of ML models is really crucial, especially in domains like healthcare or finance, where decisions impact lives. The breakthroughs am expecting in the future are related to the explainable AI area, the self-supervised learning, and the quantum ML

What makes you happy?

Spending time with friends at home and traveling

What makes you angry?

Lack of empathy

What makes you dream?

Music and sea

What makes you get up and moooooove?

Anything but the alarm clock. Just kidding, the daily goals that I have set for myself and must carry out

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

Egoism

Can procrastination be useful?

Only when you postpone what you will never do

Post-its OR whiteboards?

Post-its

Tea or coffee?

I run on coffee and dreams

Food you never get bored eating?

Pizza

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

Listen, Little Man. W Reich

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

Antonia Petrogianni