Dr Gerasimos Potamianos

Dr Gerasimos Potamianos is a Research Director at the Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications at the National Center of Scientific Research, "Demokritos", in Athens, Greece.

Gerasimos Potamianos has recently returned to Greece after a successful career at internationally renowned Research Centers in the US. In particular he has worked at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center in New York and AT&T Labs - Research, in New Jersey, in both cases in the speech processing area. He will be discussing some of his experiences concerning AI research in industry.

Biographical Note:
Dr Gerasimos Potamianos received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Johns Hopkins University, in Baltimore, Maryland in 1994. Since then, he has worked in the U.S. at the Center for Language and Speech Processing at Johns Hopkins, at AT&T Labs - Research, and at the IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, and in Greece at the Institute of Computer Science (ICS) at FORTH, Crete. He is currently Research Director at the National Center for Scientific Research, "Demokritos" in Athens, Greece. His interests span the areas of multimodal speech processing with applications to human-computer interaction and ambient intelligence, with particular emphasis on audio-visual speech processing, automatic speech recognition, multimedia signal
processing and fusion, as well as multimodal scene analysis. He has
published over 90 articles in these areas and holds 7 Patents.