Christos Athanasiadis

Christos Athanasiadis was born in Drama, Greece. He completed his bachelor’s degree in the Department of computer science at Aristotle University in Greece, where he also earned his master’s degree as well in the Digital Media, Computational Intelligence program. In his master’s thesis, he studied machine learning methods for developing intelligent agents in the strategy video game StarCraft.

I have acquired my Ph.D. in data science and knowledge engineering (DKE) at Maastricht University on cross-modal emotion recognition based on domain adaptation. My work utilized methods to bridge expressivity features from the audio and visual modalities and ways to elicit both to improve emotion recognition performance.

Between August 2020-2024 I worked as a junior lecturer in the Artificial intelligence master program at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). My contribution is in multiple courses: Machine learning, Deep learning, Fairness Accountability Confidentiality and Transparency in AI and Explainability and Interpretability in AI. Part of my role is to prepare materials, lectures and tutorials for all these courses.

Currently, I am working as a lecturer at the LIACS institute in Leiden University. The courses that I am involved are: machine learning, probability theory, Essentials of programming and explainable AI.

My research interests include explainable AI, affective computing, large language models and AI alignment.