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Academic CV and research profile.
Contact Information
| Name | Vasiliki Vasileiou |
| Professional Title | PhD Candidate in Computer Vision and Machine Learning |
| Location | Athens, Greece |
| Website | https://vasilikivas.github.io |
| Profiles | GitHub · LinkedIn |
Experience
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Sep 2023 - Present PhD Fellow
Archimedes Research Unit, Athena Research Center
Research in computer vision and machine learning, with a focus on neural radiance fields, projective geometry, 3D geometry in computer vision, and language models. Doctoral research advised by Prof. Kostas Daniilidis and Prof. Petros Maragos in collaboration with the National Technical University of Athens.
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Jan 2024 - Mar 2024 Visiting Associate
GRASP Lab, University of Pennsylvania
- Visiting my PhD advisor.
- Attended the Machine Perception course.
- Worked on PhD research projects.
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Nov 2022 - Jul 2023 AI Research Intern
ATLAS Lab (UvA-TomTom)
- Worked on my master’s thesis on language-driven 3D scene understanding, with language models, point clouds, 3D learning with 2D supervision, and open-vocabulary tasks.
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Jun 2022 - May 2023 Teaching Assistant
University of Amsterdam & Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
- Labs for the first-year master’s course Computer Vision 1.
- Work colleges for the first-year bachelor’s course Data Structures and Algorithms.
- Labs for the second-year master’s course Socially Intelligent Robotics.
- Labs for the first-year bachelor’s course Human-Computer Interaction.
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Mar 2020 - Jul 2021 Undergraduate Research Assistant
Computer Vision, Speech Communication & Signal Processing Group, NTUA
- Worked on human action and gesture recognition and temporal segmentation.
- Worked with 2D/3D skeletons, RGB/depth/optical flow features, and LSTM, 3DCNN, TRN, and I3D models.
Education
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Sep 2023 - Present PhD Candidate in 3D Computer Vision
National Technical University of Athens
- Current GPA: 9.6/10.
- Research focus: 3D computer vision, neural radiance fields, projective geometry, and language models.
- Advisors: Prof. Kostas Daniilidis and Prof. Petros Maragos.
- Affiliation: PhD Fellow at the Archimedes Research Unit, Athena Research Center.
- Selected coursework: Theoretical Methods of Computer Vision & Signal Processing; Virtual Reality, Haptics and Applications in Telerobotics; Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis; Machine Perception (UPenn).
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Sep 2021 - Jul 2023 MSc in Artificial Intelligence
University of Amsterdam
- Final GPA: 7.55/10.
- Thesis: Language-driven 3D scene understanding.
- Supervisors: Prof. Martin R. Oswald and Dr. Silvan Weder.
- Selected coursework: Computer Vision; Deep Learning; Machine Learning; Data Mining; Natural Language Processing; Deep Learning for Natural Language Processing.
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Sep 2015 - Feb 2021 Diploma/MEng in Electrical & Computer Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
- Final GPA: 8.24/10, estimated at top 12-15%.
- Thesis: Deep Neural Network Architectures for Human Action/Gesture Recognition and Temporal Segmentation in Videos.
- Supervisor: Prof. Petros Maragos.
- Program details: Five-year joint degree, 300 ECTS; concentration in Signal, Control Systems and Robotics, Software Systems, and Computing Systems.
- Selected coursework: Computer Vision; Intelligent Systems; Pattern Recognition; Robotics; Speech and Language Processing; Human-Computer Interaction.
Honors and Awards
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Master Studies Scholarship
Eugenides Foundation
Scholarship awarded to a graduate of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of NTUA for postgraduate studies in engineering at a university abroad with full-time attendance.
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A Great Moment for Education
Ministry of Education & Eurobank EFG
Award for achieving the highest Nationwide University Entrance Examination score at my senior high school.
References
- Kostas Daniilidis
University of Pennsylvania, PhD advisor.
- Petros Maragos
National Technical University of Athens, PhD advisor.
- Martin R. Oswald
University of Amsterdam, MSc thesis advisor.