PhD Student | SAIL | University of Southern California
I'm a Computer Science PhD student at University of Southern California and a graaduate research assistant at Signal Analysis and Interpretation Lab (SAIL) , under the supervision of Professor Shrikanth Narayanan. Previously, I did my Bachelors in the ECE Departement at National Technical University of Athens where I worked with Professor Petros Maragos. Also, I was an external collaborator of the Machine Learning Lab at Univerity of Texas at Austin, where I worked with Professor Alex Dimakis .
My research lies at the intersection of applied and theoretical machine learning, with a particular emphasis on privacy-preserving ML. I am interested in developing methodologies for dataset construction and benchmarking, exploring how privacy issues and memorization occur in large language models. Additionally, my work spans multiple modalities including vision, language, occasionally speech, and multimodal scenarios such as vision-language tasks.
• [Jan 2025] We got a paper accepted in ICRA 2025.
• [Aug 2024] I started my PhD at University of Southern California.
• [Jan 2024] I started a new position as Research Assistant in Robotics Unit of the Athena Research and Innovation Center (Athena RC) and CVSP Group.
• [Oct 2023] Our paper "Enhancing CLIP with a Third Modality" got accepted in NeurIPS 2023 Workshop: Self-Supervised Learning - Theory and Practice.
• [Oct 2023] I joined Workable as a Machine Learning Engineer intern.
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Enhancing CLIP with a Third Modality Efthymios Tsaprazlis, Georgios Smyrnis, Alexandros G. Dimakis, Petros Maragos, NeurIPS Workshop: Self-Supervised Learning - Theory and Practice, 2023 |
You can reach me via email at tsaprazl@usc.edu or connect with me on LinkedIn.