Dr. Vasileios Vonikakis

Dr Vasileios Vonikakis is a senior researcher and team leader with in-depth experience in AI, Machine Learning, Computer Vision and Image Processing, specialising in creating IP and commercialising technology. He is the Senior GTM Solution Architect for Generative AI at Amazon Web Services (AWS).

Before AWS, he was the Senior Principal Engineer in Panasonic Industrial Devices Technology Centre, Singapore. There, he led an engineering team that developed machine learning models and AI technologies for human profiling and industrial visual inspection (Python, SciKit-Learn, Numpy, Scipy).

Before joining the corporate world, Vasileios was a researcher for the University of Rome “Sapienza” and the CRAS Institute of Aerospace Research, where he developed medical-grade image processing software for mammographic images. Between 2012-2017, Vasileios was a Research Scientist in the Advanced Digital Sciences Center (ADSC), a research institute of the University of Illinois (UIUC) and A*STAR, where he developed and commercialised computer vision technologies for face analysis.