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George Michalopoulos

George Michalopoulos

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  • Timeline

  • About me

    Senior Applied Scientist at Microsoft

  • Education

    • University of Waterloo

      2017 - 2022
      Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science

      Thesis: "Innovations in Domain Knowledge Augmentation of Contextual Models"

    • University of Patras

      2009 - 2014
      5-year Diploma Computer Engineering and Informatics Department (CEID) 8.31/10 (Graduated 3rd among 143 graduates)

    • University of Patras

      2014 - 2016
      Master of Science (M.Sc.) Computer Engineering and Informatics Department (CEID) 9.6/10

  • Experience

    • Computer Technology Institute

      Mar 2014 - Jun 2014
      Software Engineer Intern

      Internship within the EC-funded research project eCOMPASS for the development of novel services for finding optimal time-dependent paths in road networks.

    • Computer Technology Institute

      Nov 2014 - Jun 2016
      Software Engineer

      Development, benchmarking and experimental verification of novel services for finding optimal time-dependent paths in road networks and their integration with other services within the frame of the EC-funded research projects eCOMPASS and MOVESMART.

    • CancerCare Manitoba

      May 2019 - Aug 2019
      Natural Language Processing Engineer Intern (PhD)

      Development of algorithms using administrative health data and electronic medical record (EMR) data that can accurately capture recurrence in breast cancer cohorts

    • Semantic Health

      Sept 2020 - Jan 2021
      Natural Language Processing Engineer Intern (PhD)

      Development of contextual embedding models for the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) task

    • Microsoft

      Jun 2021 - Sept 2021
      Research Intern (PhD) - Deep Learning and Natural Language Processing

      Development of novel techniques for integrating medical domain knowledge into a transformer-based sequence-to-sequence architecture for summarizing medical conversations

    • Microsoft

      Aug 2022 - now
      Senior Applied Scientist

      Development of NLP models with strong product impact for summarization, text generation, text classification, and named entity recognition tasks.

  • Licenses & Certifications

    • June 2024 MLADS Conference Presenter

      Microsoft
      Jun 2024
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    • Principles of Computing (Part 2)

      Coursera Verified Certificates
      Nov 2015
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    • June 2025 MLADS Conference Speaker

      Microsoft
      Jun 2025
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    • The Fundamentals of Computing Specialization Capstone Exam

      Coursera Course Certificates
      Dec 2015
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    • Microsoft Global Hackathon 2024

      Microsoft
      Sept 2024
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    • An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python (Part 2)

      Coursera Verified Certificates
      Nov 2015
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    • Algorithmic Thinking (Part 2)

      Coursera Verified Certificates
      Nov 2015
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    • Algorithmic Thinking (Part 1)

      Coursera Verified Certificates
      Oct 2015
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    • An Introduction to Interactive Programming in Python (Part 1)

      Coursera Verified Certificates
      Oct 2015
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    • Principles of Computing (Part 1)

      Coursera Verified Certificates
      Oct 2015
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  • Honors & Awards

    • Awarded to George Michalopoulos
      2020-2021: Mitacs Accelerate Internship Mitacs Aug 2020
    • Awarded to George Michalopoulos
      2017-2018: GO-Bell Scholarship - Sep 2017
    • Awarded to George Michalopoulos
      Graduated 3rd from the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras (among 143 graduates) - Jul 2014
    • Awarded to George Michalopoulos
      2010-2012: Scholarship awarded by the Greek State Scholarships Foundation - 2010
    • Awarded to George Michalopoulos
      Entered 6th in the Computer Engineering and Informatics Department, University of Patras (nationwide competition) - Oct 2009

  • Volunteer Experience

    • Computer Lab Assistant

      Issued by University of Patras on Dec 2010
      University of PatrasAssociated with George Michalopoulos