Giorgos Vernikos
Hello! I am a final-year Ph.D. student at the Electrical Engineering department at EPFL and a research assistant at HEIG-VD, in Switzerland. My Ph.D. advisor is Andrei Popescu-Belis. I am interested in machine translation and large language models. I also have a growing interest in machine translation evaluation.
During my Ph.D. I interned at Google in the Google Assistant team in Zurich, Switzerland. I also did an internship at Amazon Web Services (AWS) in Santa Clara, CA, working with the Amazon Translate team.
Before coming to Switzerland, I obtained my diploma (combined BEng and MEng) in Electrical and Computer Engineering and my MSc in Data Science and Machine Learning from the National Technical University of Athens in Athens, Greece. In my Master’s thesis, I worked on Adversarial Fine-Tuning of Pretrained Language Models under the supervision of Andreas Stafylopatis. During that time I was also working as a Machine Learning Engineer at DeepSea Technologies.
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May 16, 2024 | Excited to announce that our paper Don’t Rank, Combine! Combining Machine Translation Hypotheses Using Quality Estimation has been accepted at the main conference of ACL 2024! |
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Feb 21, 2024 | Invited talks at IST & Unbabel Seminars and Microsoft MT reading group! |
Jan 18, 2024 | My Google internship project Small Language Models Improve Giants by Rewriting Their Outputs has been accepted at EACL 2024! |
Jan 16, 2024 | The preprint for our work Don’t Rank, Combine! Combining Machine Translation Hypotheses Using Quality Estimation is available on Arxiv! |
Jul 14, 2023 | Invited talk at Archimedes 2023 Summer NLP Workshop in Athens! |