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Overview of my background and research experience.

Contact Information

Name Bill Psomas
Professional Title MSCA Postdoctoral Fellow
Email vasileios.psomas@fel.cvut.cz
Location Karlovo náměstí 13, Prague, Nové Město 12000

Professional Summary

Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at Visual Recogntion Group of Czech Technical University in Prague. My research focuses on visual and multimodal representation learning.

Experience

  • 2024 - present

    Prague, Czech Republic

    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Czech Technical University in Prague
    Conducting research in computer vision and vision-language learning.
    • 3 publications in A* conferences (up to date)
  • 2024 - present

    Athens, Greece

    Visiting Lecturer
    National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
    Teaching the “Computer Vision” course in the MSc programme in Data Science and Information Technologies.
    • Develop the course materials and assignments
    • Deliver lectures and supervised students
  • 2020 - 2024

    Athens, Greece

    Doctoral Researcher
    National Technical University of Athens
    Researcher contributing to multiple research projects in computer vision, remote sensing, and multimodal learning.
    • RAMONES (H2020)
    • BiCUBES (HFRI)
    • iTOBOS (H2020)
    • eOSD (KAUST)
  • 2022 - 2023

    Vienna, Austria

    Research Intern
    Institute of Advanced Research in Artificial Intelligence
    • Developed an attention-based pooling mechanism for convolutional networks and vision transformers
  • 2020 - 2020

    Rennes, France

    Research Intern
    Inria Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique
    • Developed a novel evaluation setting and a novel loss function for deep metric learning
  • 2019 - 2020

    Marousi, Greece

    Research Assistant
    Athena Research Center
    • Contributed to plant species recognition using machine learning and computer vision in the AdVENt project
  • 2020 - 2024

    Patras, Greece

    Computer Vision Engineer
    Mismatch
    • Designed background subtraction algorithms for basketball court imagery
    • Trained detectors for player, ball, and digit detection
    • Developed automatic pan-and-zoom algorithms
    • Worked on jersey color/number datasets and spatio-temporal action localization

Education

  • 2020 - 2024

    Athens, Greece

    PhD
    National Technical University of Athens
    Deep Learning for Computer Vision
    • PhD dissertation “Learning Visual and Multimodal Representations”
    • 4 publications in A* conferences (ICLR, NeurIPS, ECCV, ICCV)
  • 2018 - 2020

    Athens, Greece

    MSc
    National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
    Data Science and Information Technologies
    • Master’s dissertation “Metric Learning - A Deep Dive”
    • Specialization in Big Data and Artificial Intelligence
  • 2012 - 2018

    Athens, Greece

    Diploma
    National Technical University of Athens
    Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering
    • Diploma’s dissertation “Investigation of Greek Character Automatic Recognition Methods in Ancient Epigraphic Images”
    • Specialization in Artificial Intelligence for Remote Sensing