Gerasimos (Jerry) Spanakis

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 at the intersection of Social Computing, Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Law, combining fundamental research on Machine Learning, Large Language Models (LLMs), robustness and bias with applied work on socially relevant domains such as legal AI systems, social media transparency and language-centric technologies. My work advances both the scientific understanding of AI systems and their responsible deployment in social, legal and regulatory contexts, building bridges between technical innovation and societal impact.

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