Stergios Poularakis

Stergios Poularakis is an accomplished Engineering Manager at BenevolentAI since October 2024, having previously served as Head of Advanced R&D at V-Nova Ltd. from November 2015 to October 2024, where Stergios led a team of 6-10 engineers and successfully managed the hiring and development of over 15 engineers. Prior experience includes roles as a Senior Research Engineer and Research Engineer at the Information Technologies Institute, focusing on human activity detection in the Dem@Care project, and a Teaching Assistant at the University of Thessaly, facilitating graduate and undergraduate courses in various engineering disciplines. Earlier positions involved research roles at TWS-Electronics and CIDANA, contributing to projects on audio-visual content delivery and video compression. Stergios holds a Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering, a Master's in Computer & Communication Engineering, and a Diploma in the same field, all from the University of Thessaly.