
Yannis Assael
Greek artificial intelligence research scientist
working at Google DeepMind.
working at Google DeepMind.
17/10/2023. | AI Reads Ancient Scroll Charred by Mount Vesuvius in Tech First, Scientific American. |
12/10/2023. | AI reads text from ancient Herculaneum scroll for the first time, Nature. |
01/07/2023. | KI macht Geschichte, MIT Technology Review. |
24/04/2023. | MIT names Wolfson Alumnus on Innovators Under 35 list, Wolfson College, University of Oxford. |
23/03/2023. | Yannis Assael - MIT's Innovators Under 35 Europe, MIT Technology Review. |
29/09/2022. | AI is already better at lip reading than we are, Engadget. |
13/07/2022. | Alumni Profile - Yannis Assael, University of Oxford Inspired Research. |
24/05/2022. | Una herramienta de inteligencia artificial ayuda a la restauración y atribución de textos antiguos, El País. |
15/03/2022. | How AI helps historians restore ancient texts and rediscover the past, The Recursive. |
13/03/2022. | DeepMind’s New AI Helps Restore Damaged Ancient Texts, Wired. |
10/03/2022. | AI helps historians complete ancient Greek inscriptions damaged over millennia, TechCrunch. |
10/03/2022. | AI fills the gaps in ancient texts to clear Pericles, The Times. |
09/03/2022. | Ancient mysteries to be revealed as AI fills in the blanks of damaged manuscripts, The Telegraph. |
09/03/2022. | DeepMind’s new AI model helps decipher, date, and locate ancient inscriptions, The Verge. |
09/03/2022. | DeepMind claims its AI can decipher ancient Greek texts from damaged artifacts, VentureBeat. |
09/03/2022. | AI could decipher gaps in ancient Greek texts, say researchers, The Guardian. |
09/03/2022. | AI can help historians restore ancient texts from damaged inscriptions, NewScientist. |
14/04/2021. | Forbes names Wolfson Alumnus on 30 Under 30 list, Wolfson College, University of Oxford. |
08/04/2021. | Department alumnus Yannis Assael featured in Forbes 30 under 30 list for Europe, Dept. Computer Science, University of Oxford. |
07/04/2021. | 30 Under 30 Science & Healthcare, Forbes. |
07/04/2021. | 30 Under 30 Europe 2021: Changing The World From Artificial Intelligence To Covid-19, Forbes. |
10/11/2020. | DeepMind Says Impact of New End-to-End Machine Dubbing Tech May Be Widespread, Slator. |
01/08/2020. | How AI helps historians solve ancient puzzles, Financial Times. |
18/12/2019. | DeepMind and Google recreate former NFL linebacker Tim Shaw’s voice using AI, VentureBeat. |
18/12/2019. | Using WaveNet technology to reunite speech-impaired users with their original voices, DeepMind. |
04/11/2019. | Oracle of AIsolves classic ancient conundrums, The Times. |
31/10/2019. | Restoring ancient Greek inscriptions using AI deep learning, University of Oxford. |
22/10/2019. | New research uses deep learning to restore ancient Greek texts, Dept. Computer Science, University of Oxford. |
21/10/2019. | Google’s DeepMind AI Beats Humans Again—This Time By Deciphering Ancient Greek Text, Observer. |
18/10/2019. | DeepMind AI beats humans at deciphering damaged ancient Greek tablets, NewScientist. |
15/10/2019. | Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy, DeepMind. |
01/10/2019. | Al is helping scholars restore ancient Greek texts on stone tablets, TechCrunch. |
31/07/2018. | Lip-reading artificial intelligence could help the deaf—or spies, Science. |
10/11/2016. | New software could give lip-reading powers to everyone, Mashable. |
08/11/2016. | AI that lip-reads 'better than humans', BBC News. |
07/11/2016. | Can deep learning help solve lip reading?, The Verge. |
24/02/2016. | Business Insider, Business Insider. |
20/02/2016. | Can you solve the '100 hat riddle' used by Google in job interviews?, Independent. |
19/02/2016. | Google's Artificial Intelligence Solves Riddle Used In Google Interviews, IFL Science. |
17/02/2016. | AI solves 100-hat puzzle used in Google job interviews, NewScientist. |
07/09/2023. | 2023 Mediterranean Machine Learning (M2L) summer school & panel discussion, Anatolia College. |
31/08/2023. | To Σεπτέμβριο ξεκινάει η ψηφιοποίηση των Υποθηκοφυλακείων, Μακεδονία. |
31/08/2023. | Ανάγκη για επιμόρφωση των νομοθετών στην τεχνητή νοημοσύνη, Καρφίτσα. |
31/08/2023. | Η επόμενη ημέρα για την τεχνητή νοημοσύνη στη Μεσόγειο, Καρφίτσα. |
26/08/2023. | 2023 Mediterranean Machine Learning summer school, EMEA.gr. |
26/08/2023. | Θεσσαλονίκη: Θερινό σχολείο για την Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη και τη Μηχανική Μάθηση, ΕΡΤ News. |
01/05/2023. | Η τεχνητή νοημοσύνη στην υπηρεσία του ανθρώπου, Αθηναίος - Κολλέγιο Αθηνών. |
26/04/2023. | Internationalization of Greek Higher Education (Διεθνοποίηση της Ελληνικής Τριτοβάθμιας Εκπαίδευσης), Delphi Economic Forum VΙΙΙ. |
09/04/2023. | Γιάννης Ασσαέλ: Από το Πανεπιστήμιο Μακεδονίας στη λίστα του Forbes και του ΜΙΤ, LIFO.gr. |
09/04/2023. | Ο Έλληνας εφευρέτης που μπήκε στη λίστα του «MIT» παντρεύοντας την Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη με την Αρχαία Ελλάδα, Newsbeast.gr. |
09/04/2023. | Η Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη είναι εργαλείο για τη βελτίωση της ζωής, Το Βήμα. |
02/04/2023. | Κεντρικό Δελτίο Ειδήσεων - MIT's Innovators Under 35 Europe, ΣΚΑΙ. |
15/03/2023. | Η «Ιθάκη» που διαβάζει αρχαίες επιγραφές, Τα Νέα. |
07/03/2023. | Καινοτομίες με θετικό κοινωνικό αποτύπωμα, Οικονομική Επιθεώρηση. |
16/05/2022. | Επετειακή εκδήλωση εορτασμού των 70 χρόνων λειτουργίας, ΙΚΥ. |
23/04/2022. | Η «βαθιά» ανάγνωση των επιγραφών, Το Βήμα. |
28/03/2022. | Όμικρον Τρία - Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη για τον Πολιτισμό, ΕΡΤ3. |
14/03/2022. | «Ιθάκη»: Ανακαλύπτοντας την αρχαία Ελλάδα μέσα από την Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη, Υπουργείο Πολιτισμού και Αθλητισμού. |
10/03/2022. | DeepMind: Σύστημα τεχνητής νοημοσύνης αποκατέστησε για πρώτη φορά κείμενα σε αρχαιοελληνικές επιγραφές, ΕΡΤ. |
09/03/2022. | Tεχνητή νοημοσύνη της Google αποκρυπτογράφησε αρχαία Ελληνικά κείμενα, Το Βήμα. |
09/03/2022. | «Ιθάκη» εκεί που η τεχνητή νοημοσύνη συναντά την Αρχαία Ελλάδα, Καθημερινή. |
09/03/2022. | Έλληνες κατασκεύασαν την «Ιθάκη» και αποκαθιστούν κείμενα σε αρχαιοελληνικές επιγραφές, Μακεδονία. |
10/10/2021. | Με νέα ματιά - Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη, ΕΡΤ1. |
26/09/2021. | A.I. και Πολιτισμός, ΒΗΜΑgazino Πρόσωπα. |
30/04/2021. | Τέσσερις νέοι Ελληνες στη λίστα «Forbes», Το Βήμα. |
16/04/2021. | Όμικρον Τρία - Τεχνητή Νοημοσύνη, ΕΡΤ3. |
15/04/2021. | Γιάννης Ασσαέλ στο newsbeast.gr: Νιώθω περηφάνια ως Έλληνας που βρίσκομαι στη λίστα του Forbes, newsbeast.gr. |
14/04/2021. | Forbes : Αυτοί είναι οι Έλληνες που κατάφεραν να μπουν στη λίστα με τους πιο επιτυχημένους νέους της Ευρώπης, Τα Νέα. |
13/04/2021. | Τέσσερις Έλληνες επιστήμονες κάτω των 30 ετών στη λίστα του Forbes, LiFO.gr. |
12/04/2021. | Τρεις Ελληνες επιστήμονες κάτω των 30 ετών στη λίστα του Forbes, Καθημερινή. |
11/04/2021. | Ποιοι είναι οι Έλληνες που μπήκαν στην ευρωπαϊκή λίστα του Forbes "30 κάτω των 30" 2021, Capital.gr. |
08/04/2021. | Γιάννης Ασσαέλ: Ποιος είναι ο Θεσσαλονικιός που φιγουράρει στη λίστα του Forbes Under 30, Glow. |
12/11/2020. | Όταν η τεχνητή νοημοσύνη «μεταφράζει» τον ήχο, προς όφελος της εκπαίδευσης, Αθηναϊκό - Μακεδονικό Πρακτορείο Ειδήσεων. |
08/09/2020. | Δρ Γιάννης Ασσαέλ ‘08: Εντυπώσεις από την Τελετή Αποφοίτησης του High School 2020, Anatolia College. |
19/08/2020. | Γιάννης Ασσαέλ: «Φυσικά πιστεύω πως μπορούμε ν' αλλάξουμε τον κόσμο», Αθηναϊκό - Μακεδονικό Πρακτορείο Ειδήσεων. |
20/10/2019. | «Πυθία»: Ο γόνος της Google και Ελληνα ερευνητή που «διαβάζει» μισοκατεστραμμένες αρχαίες επιγραφές, Kαθημερινή. |
01/08/2018. | Θεσσαλονικιός πίσω από σύστημα τεχνητής νοημοσύνης της Google που «διαβάζει» τα χείλη, Parallaxi. |
01/08/2018. | Νέο πρόγραμμα τεχνητής νοημοσύνης δημιούργησε ομάδα ερευνητών με επικεφαλής Ελληνα, Kαθημερινή. |
23/11/2017. | 6o Μαθητικό Συνέδριο Επιστήμης & Τεχνολογίας ACSTAC 2017, Kαθημερινή. |
22/11/2017. | Διακεκριμένοι επιστήμονες σε μαθητικό συνέδριο στη Θεσσαλονίκη, TyposThes. |
28/11/2016. | Ο Γιάννης Ασσαέλ μιλά για το ριζοσπαστικό σύστημα τεχνητής νοημοσύνης που διαβάζει τα ανθρώπινα χείλη, LiFO.gr. |
17/11/2016. | LipNet - Τώρα με την Άννα Μπουσδούκου, ΣΚΑΙ. |
09/11/2016. | Λογισμικό διαβάζει τα χείλη των ανθρώπων, Το Βήμα. |
01/03/2016. | Αυτός είναι ο γρίφος των 100 καπέλων που σε βάζουν να λύσεις η Google και η Goldman Sachs αν τους ζητήσεις δουλειά, LiFO.gr. |
08/12/2010. | Η HTC βράβευσε τους νικητές του GRAND - Greek Android Developers Challenge, PC Magazine. |
Distinction, 81.8%, 2nd best overall performance
2014 - 2015 Imperial CollegeDistinction, 83.5%, best overall performance
2013 - 2014 University of OxfordDistinction A, ECTS 7.5
2011 Engineering College of Copenhagen (IHK)83.7%, 4-Years
2008 - 2013 University of Macedonia17.8 / 20
2002 - 2008 Anatolia College, Greecefull scholarship for DPhil in Machine Learning, 2015 - 2018.
full scholarship for MRes program of "HiPEDS", 2014 - 2015.
full scholarship for MSc in University of Oxford, 2013-2014.
Blender 3D Design, EU Media Program Scholarship, 2011 - Sofia, Bulgaria.
Blender 3D Design, EU Media Program Scholarship, 2010 - Sofia, Bulgaria.
Scrum Alliance, 2021.
1. | Thea Sommerschield, Yannis Assael, John Pavlopoulos, Vanessa Stefanak, Andrew Senior, Chris Dyer, John Bodel, Jonathan Prag, Ion Androutsopoulos, Nando de Freitas. Machine Learning for Ancient Languages: A Survey, Computational Linguistics, 2, 49, 1-44, MIT Press, 2023. |
2. | Yannis Assael, Thea Sommerschield, Brendan Shillingford, Mahyar Bordbar, John Pavlopoulos, Marita Chatzipanagiotou, Ion Androutsopoulos, Jonathan Prag, Nando de Freitas. Restoring;attributing ancient texts using deep neural networks, Nature, 603, 7900, 280-283, Nature Publishing Group, 2022. |
3. | Ziga Avsec, Vikram Agarwal, Daniel Visentin, Joseph R Ledsam, Agnieszka Grabska-Barwinska, Kyle R Taylor, Yannis Assael, John Jumper, Pushmeet Kohli, David R Kelley. Effective gene expression prediction from sequence by integrating long-range interactions, Nature Methods, 18, 10, 1196-1203, Nature Publishing Group, 2021. |
4. | Brendan Shillingford, Yannis Assael, Misha Denil, . Interactive decoding of words from visual speech recognition models, arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.00692, 2021. |
5. | Angelos Mantelakis, Yannis Assael, Parviz Sorooshian, Ankur Khajuria, . Machine learning demonstrates high accuracy for disease diagnosis;prognosis in plastic surgery, Plastic;Reconstructive Surgery - Global Open, 9, 6, e3638, LWW, 2021. |
6. | Yi Yang, Brendan Shillingford, Yannis Assael, Miaosen Wang, Wendi Liu, Yutian Chen, Yu Zhang, Eren Sezener, Luis C Cobo, Misha Denil, Yusuf Aytar, Nando de Freitas. Large-scale multilingual audio visual dubbing, arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.03530, 2020. |
7. | Takaki Makino, Hank Liao, Yannis Assael, Brendan Shillingford, Basilio Garcia, Otavio Braga, Olivier Siohan. Recurrent neural network transducer for audio-visual speech recognition, IEEE automatic speech recognition;understanding workshop (ASRU), 905-912, IEEE, 2019. |
8. | Yannis Assael, Thea Sommerschield, Jonathan Prag, . Restoring ancient text using deep learning: a case study on Greek epigraphy, Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, 2019. |
9. | Brendan Shillingford, Yannis Assael, Matthew W. Hoffman, Thomas Paine, Cían Hughes, Utsav Prabhu, Hank Liao, Hasim Sak, Kanishka Rao, Lorrayne Bennett, . Large-scale visual speech recognition, Interspeech, 4135-4139, 2019. |
10. | Archit Gupta, Brendan Shillingford, Yannis Assael, Thomas C Walters, . Speech bandwidth extension with WaveNet, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio;Acoustics, 2019. |
11. | Yutian Chen, Yannis Assael, Brendan Shillingford, David Budden, Scott Reed, Heiga Zen, Quan Wang, Luis C Cobo, Andrew Trask, Ben Laurie, . Sample Efficient Adaptive Text-to-Speech, arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.10460, 2018. |
12. | Nikolaos D Goumagias, Dimitrios Hristu-Varsakelis, Yannis M Assael, . Using deep Q-learning to understand the tax evasion behavior of risk-averse firms, Expert Systems with Applications, 101, 258-270, Pergamon, 2018. |
13. | Rui Ponte Costa, Yannis Assael, Brendan Shillingford, Nando de Freitas, Tim Vogels, . Cortical microcircuits as gated-recurrent neural networks, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 272-283, 2017. |
14. | Yannis M Assael, Konstantinos D Antoniadis, Marc J Assael, . From analog timers to the era of machine learning: The case of the transient hot-wire technique, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1866, 1, 20001, AIP Publishing, 2017. |
15. | Yannis M Assael, Brendan Shillingford, Shimon Whiteson, Nando de Freitas, . LipNet: End-to-End Sentence-level Lipreading, GPU Technology Conference, 2017, 2016. |
16. | Hossam Mossalam, Yannis M Assael, Diederik M Roijers, Shimon Whiteson, . Multi-Objective Deep Reinforcement Learning, NIPS Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop, 2016. |
17. | Jakob N Foerster, Yannis M Assael, Nando de Freitas, Shimon Whiteson, . Learning to Communicate with Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2016. |
18. | Jakob N Foerster, Yannis M Assael, Nando de Freitas, Shimon Whiteson, . Learning to Communicate to Solve Riddles with Deep Distributed Recurrent Q-Networks, IJCAI Workshop, 2016. |
19. | John-Alexander M. Assael, Niklas Wahlström, Thomas B Schön, Marc Peter Deisenroth, . Data-Efficient Learning of Feedback Policies from Image Pixels using Deep Dynamical Models, NIPS Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop, 2015. |
20. | John-Alexander M. Assael, Marc Peter Deisenroth, . From Pixels to Torques: Policy Learning using Deep Dynamical Convolutional Networks, Imperial College London, 2015. |
21. | Marc J Assael, Konstantinos D Antoniadis, Ifigeneia N Metaxa, Sofia K Mylona, John-Alexander M. Assael, Jiangtao Wu, Miaomiao Hu, . A Novel Portable Absolute Transient Hot-Wire Instrument for the Measurement of the Thermal Conductivity of Solids, International Journal of Thermophysics, 36, 11-Oct, 3083-3105, Springer US, 2015. |
22. | Charalampos S. Kouzinopoulos, John-Alexander M. Assael, Themistoklis K. Pyrgiotis, Konstantinos G. Margaritis, . A Hybrid Parallel Implementation of the Aho-Corasick;Wu-Manber Algorithms Using NVIDIA CUDA;MPI Evaluated on a Biological Sequence Database, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 24, 1, 1540001, World Scientific, 2015. |
23. | John-Alexander M. Assael, Ziyu Wang, Bobak Shahriari, Nando de Freitas, . Heteroscedastic Treed Bayesian Optimisation, NIPS Workshop on Bayesian Optimization, 2014. |
24. | John-Alexander M. Assael, Konstantinos Margaritis, . String Matching on hybrid parallel architectures, an approach using MPI;NVIDIA CUDA, http://www.yannisassael.com/publications/assael_uom_dissertation.pdf, University of Macedonia, 2013. |
25. | MJ Assael, Y. M. Assael, ML Huber, RA Perkins, Y Takata, . Correlation of the Thermal Conductivity of Normal;Parahydrogen from the Triple Point to 1000 K;up to 100 MPa, Journal of Physical;Chemical Reference Data, 40, 3, 033101-033101-13, American Institute of Physics, 2011. |
26. | M.J. Assael, K.E. Kakosimos, K.D. Antoniadis, John-Alexander M. Assael, . Applying Thermal Comfort Indices to Investigate Aspects of the Climate Change in Greece, International Review of Chemical Engineering, 2, 204-209, Praise Worthy Prize, 2010. |
27. | M.J. Assael, K.E. Kakosimos, A. Alexandridis, John-Alexander M. Assael, . Study;Application of Discomfort Indices in Greece, 7th National Scientific Chemical Engineering Conference, Patra, Proceedings, 2009. |
28. | M. J. Assael, John-Alexander M. Assael, K. Kakosimos, . Discomfort Indices - www.airquality.gr, Technographima (Journal of the Technical Chamber of Greece), 362, 13-Dec, Technical Chamber of Greece, 2008. |
1. | Ioannis Alexandros AssaelBrendan Shillingford. Training video data generation neural networks using video frame embeddings, WO Patent 053523A1, 2022. |
2. | Brendan Shillingford, Ioannis Alexandros Assael, Joao Ferdinando Gomes de Freitas. Cross-modal sequence distillation, US Patent 11250838, 2022. |
3. | Yutian Chen, Scott Ellison Reed, Aaron Gerard Antonius van den Oord, Oriol Vinyals, Heiga Zen, Ioannis Alexandros Assael, Brendan Shillingford, Joao Ferdinando Gomes de Freitas. Sample-efficient adaptive text-to-speech, US Patent App. 17/061, 437, 2021. |
4. | Ioannis Alexandros Assael, Thomas Chadwick Walters, Archit Gupta, Brendan Shillingford. Bandwidth extension of incoming data using neural networks, WO Patent 221846A1, 2020. |
5. | Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Ioannis Alexandros Assael. Resolving time-delays using generative models, US Patent 0369946A1, 2019. |
6. | Brendan Shillingford, Ioannis Alexandros Assael, Joao Ferdinando Gomes De Freitas. Visual speech recognition by phoneme prediction, WO Patent 219968A1, 2019. |
DPhil Thesis | Deep learning for communication: emergence, recognition and synthesis, University of Oxford, 2019. (link) |
MRes Thesis | From pixels to torques: policy learning using deep dynamical convolutional networks, Imperial College London, 2015. |
MSc Thesis | Bayesian Optimization for Heteroscedastic Functions, University of Oxford, 2014. (link) |
Bachelor Thesis | String matching on hybrid parallel architectures, an approach using MPI and Nvidia CUDA, University of Macedonia, 2013. |