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General Information
| Full Name | Gerasimos (Makis) Lampouras |
| Date of Birth | 15th June 1984 |
| Languages | English, Greek |
Short bio
Gerasimos (Makis) Lampouras is a Principal Research Scientist and currently serves as the Team Leader of the Speech and Language group in Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab, London.
Areas of interest generally fall somewhere between Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, with his latest efforts focused on improving the auto-regressive reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models. Recently this journey has led him to try and teach LLMs to generate / understand programming languages, while previously his work was more focused on Natural Language Generation, Dialogue Systems, and Machine Learning applications for Natural Language Processing.
Previously, he was a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, University of Sheffield and University College London. He graduated and received his MSc and PhD from the Athens University of Economics and Business.
Areas of interest generally fall somewhere between Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning, with his latest efforts focused on improving the auto-regressive reasoning capabilities of Large Language Models. Recently this journey has led him to try and teach LLMs to generate / understand programming languages, while previously his work was more focused on Natural Language Generation, Dialogue Systems, and Machine Learning applications for Natural Language Processing.
Previously, he was a Research Associate at the University of Cambridge, University of Sheffield and University College London. He graduated and received his MSc and PhD from the Athens University of Economics and Business.
Experience
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2024 - today London, UK
Team Leader of the London NLP Team
Huawei Technologies Research & Development (UK) Ltd, London. - Leading a group of ~10 Senior Research Scientists and Engineers researching how to address current NLP and Large Language Models challenges, e.g. how to improve LLM's reasoning capabilities, LLM self-learning, LLM efficiency, LLMs for Programming Languages and Math, as well as related tasks.
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2023 - today London, UK
Principal Research Scientist in NLP
Huawei Technologies Research & Development (UK) Ltd, London. - Research management and development of Code Language Models.
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2019 - 2023 London, UK
Senior Research Scientist in NLP
Huawei Technologies Research & Development (UK) Ltd, London. - Research and development focused on multilignual Natural Language Generation, evaluation, and Dialogue Systems.
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2018 - 2019 Cambridge, UK
Research Associate
University of Cambridge. - EPSRC eNeMILP project: Research on non-monotonic incremental prediction of structured outputs.
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2015 - 2018 Sheffield, UK
Research Associate
University of Sheffield. - EPSRC DILiGENt project: Research on domain-independent Natural Language Generation through imitating generation policies from unaligned corpora.
- EPSRC eNeMILP project: Research on non-monotonic incremental prediction of structured outputs.
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2015 - 2015 London, UK
Research Associate
University College London. - EPSRC DILiGENt project: Research on domain-independent Natural Language Generation through imitating generation policies from unaligned corpora.
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2014 Athens, Greece
Research Assistant
Athens University of Economics and Business. - BioASQ: A Challenge on Large-Scale Biomedical Semantic Indexing and Question Answering
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2011 - 2012 Athens, Greece
Research Assistant
Athens University of Economics and Business. - Researching a Linear Programming approach to multi-document text Summarization and Natural Language Generation from ontologies.
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2007 - 2009 Athens, Greece
Research Assistant
Athens University of Economics and Business. - INDIGO: Interaction with Personality and Dialogue Enabled Robots
Education
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2009 - 2015 Athens, Greece
Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence
Athens University of Economics and Business. - Dissertation title: Natural Language Interaction with Semantic Web Ontologies.
- Covering:
- A robust framework supporting multilingual Natural Language Interaction with Semantic Web Ontologies.
- Global optimization of content selection and lexicalization for output compression.
- Automatic extraction and inference of Natural Language resources for Natural Language Generation.
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2006 - 2008 Athens, Greece
M.Sc. in Computer Science
Athens University of Economics and Business. - Dissertation title: Methods to automatically detect definitions in document collections.
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2002 - 2006 Athens, Greece
Bachelor’s degree in Informatics
Athens University of Economics and Business. - Dissertation title: Revision and larger-scale experimental evaluation of a method to handle definition questions in Question Answering systems.
Granted patents
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2024 - Philip John Gorinski, Matthieu Zimmer, Gerasimos Lampouras, Derrick Goh Xin Deik, Ignacio Iacobacci, inventors; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., assignee. Apparatus and method for the training of a code synthesis model. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) patent WO-2024213252-A1. 2024 Oct 17.
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2023 - Giulio Zhou, Gerasimos Lampouras, inventors; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., assignee. Hierarchical language generation with recurrent aggregation. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) patent WO-2023030637-A1. 2023 Mar 9.
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2021 - Giulio Zhou, Gerasimos Lampouras, inventors; Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., assignee. Device and method for generating language. World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) patent WO-2021204370-A1. 2021 Oct 14.
Workshop and Shared Task organization
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2024 - Co-organizer of SCI-CHAT: Workshop on Simulation of Conversational Intelligence in Chat.
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2022 - Co-organizer of the 6th Structured Prediction in Natural Language Processing workshop.
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2020 - Co-organizer of the 4th. Structured Prediction in Natural Language Processing workshop.
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2019 - Co-organizer of the 3rd Structured Prediction in Natural Language Processing workshop.
Chairing and service
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2023 - today - Acting as ACL ARR Area Chair.
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2024 - Acted as “Summarization” Area Chair for EACL 2024.
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2024 - Acted as “Evaluation and Validation Methodologies” Area Chair at LREC-COLING 2024.
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2023 - Acted as “Generation & Summarization” Area Chair for EACL 2023.
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2021 - Acted as “Resources and Evaluation” Area Chair for EMNLP 2021.
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2020 - Acted as Sponsorship Chair for INLG 2020.
Honors and Awards
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2022 - Huawei Innovation Pioneer Award
- For work on PanGu-Coder: Program synthesis with function-level language modeling
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2020, 2023 - Huawei Rising Star Awards
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2010-2013 - Research Funding Program: Heracleitus II
- Ph.D research fund co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund – ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program "Education and Lifelong Learning" of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF).
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2006-2007 - MSc scholarships
- Scholarships awarded in the first and second semester (3rd and 1st best position correspondingly) of the MSc program.
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Reading/writing fiction, running TTRPGs, game design.