Vasileios Lioutas
Machine Learning Research Scientist at Nuro
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolVasileios Lioutas is a research scientist with 11 years of experience building probabilistic, generative, and reinforcement learning methods for autonomous driving and human–AI collaboration. He earned a PhD from the University of British Columbia after a strong academic trajectory (MSc with a 4.0 GPA) and moved from applied NLP research at Huawei Noah’s Ark Lab to leading research at Inverted AI. His work blends deep generative models, computer vision, and probabilistic programming to enable multi-agent driving behavior that safely interacts with humans, with practical deployments informed by his industry internships and engineering roles. Based in Vancouver, he pairs rigorous academic foundations with hands-on system building, and his background includes an uncommon mix of military research management and music-school roots that reflect both operational discipline and creative thinking.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Music School of Trikala, GreeceCoursera Specialization Certificate, Deep Learning, Coursera Specialization Certificate, Deep Learning at deeplearning.aiDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at The University of British ColumbiaMaster of Computer Science (MCS), Computer Science (Data Science Specialization), Master of Computer Science (MCS), Computer Science (Data Science Specialization) at Carleton UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc) with Honours Degree, Informatics, Bachelor of Science (BSc) with Honours Degree, Informatics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
English, Greek
Github Skills (67)
python10
deep-learning10
ml10
neural-network10
tensorflow10
machine-learning10
deep-neural-networks10
machine-translation9
model-compression9
transfer-learning9
word-segmentation9
sequence-to-sequence9
named-entity-recognition9
pytorch9
pytorch3d9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
lioutasb/eme_road
Dec 2014 - Jul 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 2 pushes in 6 months
lioutasb/lioutasb
Jul 2020 - Jan 2025
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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