About me

My name is Georgios Smyrnis, and I am currently a Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic.

Previously, I was a PhD student at The University of Texas at Austin, supervised by Professor Alexandros Dimakis. My research was focused on training large scale models in both the vision and language domains. As a student, I worked on constructing datasets to train large image-text and large language models, as part of the DataComp team. I received my PhD during the summer of 2025.

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.