
Yannis Assael
Greek artificial intelligence research scientist
working at Google DeepMind.
working at Google DeepMind.
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, 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. | See if you can solve the '100 hat riddle' used by Google in job interviews, 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. |
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 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 American College Anatoliafull 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.
1. | 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. |
2. | 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 and understanding workshop (ASRU), 905-912, IEEE, 2019. |
3. | 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. |
4. | 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. |
5. | Archit Gupta. Brendan Shillingford. Yannis Assael. Thomas C Walters. . Speech bandwidth extension with WaveNet, IEEE Workshop on Applications of Signal Processing to Audio and Acoustics, 2019. |
6. | 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. |
7. | 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. |
8. | 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. |
9. | 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, 020001, AIP Publishing, 2017. |
10. | Yannis M Assael. Brendan Shillingford. Shimon Whiteson. Nando de Freitas. . LipNet: End-to-End Sentence-level Lipreading, GPU Technology Conference, 2017, 2016. |
11. | Hossam Mossalam. Yannis M Assael. Diederik M Roijers. Shimon Whiteson. . Multi-Objective Deep Reinforcement Learning, NIPS Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop, 2016. |
12. | 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. |
13. | 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. |
14. | 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. |
15. | John-Alexander M. Assael. Marc Peter Deisenroth. . From Pixels to Torques: Policy Learning using Deep Dynamical Convolutional Networks, Imperial College London, 2015. |
16. | 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, 10-11, 3083-3105, Springer US, 2015. |
17. | Charalampos S. Kouzinopoulos. John-Alexander M. Assael. Themistoklis K. Pyrgiotis. Konstantinos G. Margaritis. . A Hybrid Parallel Implementation of the Aho-Corasick and Wu-Manber Algorithms Using NVIDIA CUDA and MPI Evaluated on a Biological Sequence Database, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 24, 1, 1540001, World Scientific, 2015. |
18. | John-Alexander M. Assael. Ziyu Wang. Bobak Shahriari. Nando de Freitas. . Heteroscedastic Treed Bayesian Optimisation, NIPS Workshop on Bayesian Optimization, 2014. |
19. | John-Alexander M. Assael. Konstantinos Margaritis. . String Matching on hybrid parallel architectures, an approach using MPI and NVIDIA CUDA, http://www.yannisassael.com/publications/assael_uom_dissertation.pdf, University of Macedonia, 2013. |
20. | M. J. Assael. John-Alexander M. Assael. K. Kakosimos. . Discomfort Indices - www.airquality.gr, Technographima (Journal of the Technical Chamber of Greece), 362, 12-13, Technical Chamber of Greece, 2008. |
21. | M.J. Assael. K.E. Kakosimos. A. Alexandridis. John-Alexander M. Assael. . Study and Application of Discomfort Indices in Greece, 7th National Scientific Chemical Engineering Conference, Patra, Proceedings, 2009. |
22. | 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. |
23. | MJ Assael. Y. M. Assael. ML Huber. RA Perkins. Y Takata. . Correlation of the Thermal Conductivity of Normal and Parahydrogen from the Triple Point to 1000 K and up to 100 MPa, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 40, 3, 033101-033101-13, American Institute of Physics, 2011. |
1. | 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. |
2. | Brendan Shillingford, Ioannis Alexandros Assael, Joao Ferdinando Gomes de Freitas Cross-modal sequence distillation, US Patent App. 16/687, 558, 2020. |
3. | Jakob Nicolaus Foerster, Ioannis Alexandros Assael Resolving time-delays using generative models, US Patent 0369946A1, 2019. |
4. | 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. |