About me

My name is Georgios Smyrnis, and I am a fifth year PhD student at The University of Texas at Austin. I am supervised by Professor Alexandros Dimakis.

My research is focused on training large scale models in both the vision and language domains. Most recently, I have been working on constructing datasets to train large image-text and large language models, as part of the DataComp team. I am also interested in contrastive learning and self-supervision, in the context of training these large scale models.

In 2020, I graduated with my Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering, from the National Technical University of Athens. Under the supervision of Professor Petros Maragos, I worked on the application of tropical algebra and geometry in the study of neural networks.

During the summer of 2022, I was a student researcher at Google, in Mountain View, California. During the summer of 2024, I was an intern at Toyota Research Institute, in Los Altos, California.

I am also the proud recipient of a scholarship from the Onassis Foundation, for the support of my doctorate studies.

A link to my full CV can be found here.