Nikolaos Stylianou

Machine Learning Research Scientist

Nikolaos Stylianou

I work on how language models learn robust, useful representations under real constraints — limited data, limited compute, shifting domains. I'm currently building gake.

PhD in NLP, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (2021, Intelligent Systems Lab, adv. Ioannis Vlahavas). MSc Big Data & Text Analytics and BSc CS, University of Essex (w/ Udo Kruschwitz, Massimo Poesio). Previously postdoc at CERTH-ITI / M4D.

News

2025
Paper on building open-retrieval conversational QA systems with synthetic data accepted at SIGDIAL 2025.
2025
Paper on explainable text classification pipeline accepted at MDTT 2025
2024
Joined Omilia — Conversational Intelligence as a NLP Research Scientist
2024
Paper on cross-domain hate speech detection accepted at IEEE/WIC WI-IAT 2024.
2022
Acting Adjunct Lecturer at the AUTh School of Informatics.

Selected publications

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