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Georgios N. Yannakakis
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Professor, Director, Inst. of Digital Games, University of Malta | modl.ai
Artificial Intelligence
Affective Computing
Human-Computer Interaction
Computational Creativity
Games
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Citations
8,995
H-index
50
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166
Publications
20
Co-authors
59
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Publications
12 items
Causal Supervision of Attention for Affective Behaviour Analysis
2026
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Learning Local Constraints for Reinforcement-Learned Content Generators
2026
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PREFAB: PREFerence-based Affective Modeling for Low-Budget Self-Annotation
2026
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Emotions as Ambiguity-aware Ordinal Representations
2025
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Ethical Considerations of Large Language Models in Game Playing
2025
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Privileged Contrastive Pretraining for Multimodal Affect Modelling
2025
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Evolutionary Level Repair
2025
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The Procedural Content Generation Benchmark: An Open-source Testbed for Generative Challenges in Games
2025
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Academic Achievements
- Published paper in Nature
- Won Best Paper Award at International Conference on Machine Learning
- Holds two US patents
Research Experience
- Researcher at MIT, since 2020
- Participated in National Natural Science Foundation projects as a key researcher
- Intern Researcher at Stanford, involved in the development of intelligent systems
Education
- PhD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015-2020, Advisor: Prof. Zhang
- Master's Degree, Stanford University, 2013-2015
- Bachelor's Degree, Harvard University, 2009-2013
Background
- Research Interests: Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Professional Field: Computer Science
- Brief Introduction: Focused on developing new algorithms to solve complex problems.
Miscellany
- Enjoys reading science fiction
- Passionate about marathon running
Co-authors
12 total
Julian Togelius
Associate Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, New York University; co-founder, modl.ai
Antonios Liapis
University of Malta
David Melhart
Metaverse Lab, Southern University of Denmark (SDU)
Christoffer Holmgård
modl.ai
Mike Preuss
Universiteit Leiden
Konstantinos Makantasis
Lecturer, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence, University of Malta
Kostas Karpouzis
Assistant professor, Panteion University of Social and Political Sciences
Ahmed Khalifa
University of Malta