Gerasimos (Jerry) Spanakis
Assistant Professor in Machine Learning/Natural Language Processing

(DACS)Paul-Henri Spaaklaan 1, 6229EN, C4.013
(LAW)Bouillonstraat 1-3, 6211LH, B2.017B
Maastricht, Netherlands
My name is Gerasimos (or Jerry) Spanakis. You can find a guide to ny name here. Currently, I am an assistant professor at the Department of Advanced Computing Sciences (DACS) and at Maastricht Law+Tech Lab (Faculty of Law), at Maastricht University (UM) in the Netherlands. My current work/research lies in the area of Social Computing and includes computational social media modeling, dialogue systems (conversational agents) and information retrieval, topic detection and tracking from text data and pattern discovery from multimodal data sources. More specifically, I am interested into using Large Language Models (like chatGPT) in a controlled way and build useful applications that have added value for all relevant stakeholders.
Current roles/contributions
- Member of the research area Cognitive Systems (at DACS/UM)
- Member of the Maastricht Law and Tech Lab
- PI for the EU project VOXReality
- Reseacher at the following projects: NSMD, HumanAds, RegTech4AI
- Co-organizer of the Natural Legal Language Processing (NLLP) Workshop
- Technical expert for European Commission E-enforcement academy project (supporting Consumer Protection Cooperation (CPC) and Consumer Product Safety (CSN networks)
- Coordinator of MaastrichtNLP (MNLP), a reading group for NLP for the whole UM community
- Member of the I-research domain of Maastricht University
- Member of the Open Science Community Maastricht
news
Mar 27, 2025 | Mado Ntekouli will defend her PhD disseration titled “Bridging Individual and Group Perspectives in Psychopathology: Computational Modeling Approaches using Ecological Momentary Assessment Data” on April 15th 10.00. |
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Mar 25, 2025 | Vageesh Saxena’s penultimate PhD paper on “Responsible Guidelines for authorship attribution tasks in NLP” (co-authored with Gijs van Dijck & Aurelia Tamo-Larrieux) is published in Ethics and Information Technology journal! |
Feb 27, 2025 | I will be giving a talk on “Understanding the Fundamentals of AI Systems” at the European Institute of Public Administration (EIPA) on Monday, April 14th 2025. Check the program here I will also be giving a practical workshop at eLaw Summer School on Regulating AI in the Single Digital Market on Friday, June 27th 2025. Check the program here |