Dr. Lazaros Polymenakos (Diploma NTUA '89, MS MIT '92, Ph.D. MIT ’95) is a Partner for Ernst & Young Technical Consulting and the EMEIA Consulting Artificial Intelligence Leader. He works on AI projects in NLP, Vision, and Dialog for EY clients at EMEIA and globally, and for the development of innovative EY new solutions/assets. The focus of his research is on deep learning, advanced machine learning, speech, NLP, dialog, and knowledge representation. Throughout his career, he has defined, driven, and attracted funding for research and development initiatives, managed large and geographically dispersed teams, and successfully delivered research innovation and solution implementation projects.

Before joining EY, he held Senior Research manager positions at Amazon Alexa AI for Alexa Dialog, and at IBM T. J. Watson Research Center for Implicit Learning Dialog and for Cognitive Dialog Systems, developing in both positions state-of-the-art solutions using Deep Learning and Generative AI architectures. He also held academic positions at Deree College, Athens Information Technology (AIT), and Carnegie Mellon University (CMU), reaching the level of Associate Dean at AIT.

Dr. Polymenakos’ research and academic work has led to more than 50 publications in international scientific journals, more than 70 papers in peer reviewed international conferences, and an edited book on Artificial Intelligence. He has 13 international patents, he is a member of IEEE, and has served in the organizing committee and review boards of several international journals, conferences, and workshops (Fred Jellinek Summer School 2020, Neurips Dialog Workshop 2018, DSTC6 &7 challenges on dialog systems, WebSci-09, AIAI-07, PIMRC-07, AIAI-06, ICSLP-06).