What was your previous role before Behavioral Signals?

Project marketing manager

What is your role at Behavioral Signals?

Product manager of OliverAPI and AI-MC

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

Build cutting-edge technology to outperform humans and convert it into a valuable product by marrying researcher’s and businessman’s mentality

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

Working on a new uncharted territories and building a first of its kind product

Who are your role models and mentors?

Mentor in the Product world: Vassiliki Chatzivasileiou! Role model: Alex Eleftheriadis!

What professional mistakes have you learned most from?

Bad organizing and poor planning, miscommunicating

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

Identifying sarcasm, as a matter of fact any emotion that needs multimodal analysis

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

Challenges: apply effectively neural network architectures to tabular dataset Breakthrough: deep coding – autogenerated code from human-like description

What makes you happy?

Exploring new things, new places, new everything

What makes you angry?

Injustice of any kind

What makes you dream?

A good conversation

What makes you get up and moooooove?

Achieving a new goal / Take on new challenges as the Ironman 70.3 in less than 4 months for first triathlon without previous experience in any of the three sports 😎

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

“Challenge me” or “Bragging” based on previous answer

Can procrastination be useful?

Definitely! Can give space for revitalizing

Post-its OR whiteboards?

Huge Whiteboards

Tea or coffee?

Greek coffee in the morning, green tea in the afternoon

Food you never get bored eating?

French fries 🍟!

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

Jitterbug Perfume, by Tom Robbins

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

Petros Mitseas