Alkis Koudounas

Ph.D. candidate in Ingegneria Informatica E Dei Sistemi , 38^th cycle (2022-2025)
Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN)

Docente esterno e/o collaboratore didattico
Department of Control and Computer Engineering (DAUIN)

alkis.koudounas@polito.it

Profile

PhD

Research topic

Explainable AI for spoken language understanding

Tutors

Research interests

Data science, Computer vision and AI

Biography

Alkis is a second-year Ph.D student at the Polytechnic University of Turin, Italy, and is currently an applied research intern at Amazon AGI in Aachen, Germany. His research focuses on speech, audio, and multimodal understanding, as well as explainable and trustworthy AI. His interest also lies in the development of resources for under-represented languages. He served as the Italian Language Ambassador for the AYA Cohere4AI project. His works have been published in top-tier speech and NLP conferences, including ICASSP, COLING, EACL, and Interspeech, where he also won the Best Student Paper Award (2024).

Personal website: https://koudounasalkis.github.io/

Awards and Honors

ISCA Interspeech 2024 Travel Grant Recipient (2024)
ACM KDD 2024 Travel Grant Recipient (2024)
IEEE ICASSP 2024 Travel Grant Recipient (2024)
Applied Scientist Intern at Amazon AGI - Speech Recognition Team (2024)
Online Chair at ECML-PKDD 2023 (2023)
Best Student Paper Award at ISCA Interspeech 2024 Conference (2024)

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Teaching

Teachings

Master of Science

Data Science e Tecnologie per le Basi di Dati. A.A. 2024/25, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
Data science lab: process and methods. A.A. 2024/25, DATA SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. Collaboratore del corso
Data Science e Tecnologie per le Basi di Dati. A.A. 2023/24, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
Data science lab: process and methods. A.A. 2023/24, DATA SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. Collaboratore del corso
Data Science e Tecnologie per le Basi di Dati. A.A. 2022/23, INGEGNERIA INFORMATICA (COMPUTER ENGINEERING). Collaboratore del corso
Data science lab: process and methods. A.A. 2022/23, DATA SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING. Collaboratore del corso

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Research

Research groups

DBDM - Database and Data Mining Group (DAUIN)

Publications

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Ciravegna, Gabriele; Koudounas, Alkis; Fantini, Marco; Cerquitelli, Tania; Baralis, ... (2024)
Non-invasive AI-powered Diagnostics: The case of Voice-Disorder Detection - Vision paper. In: Workshops of the EDBT/ICDT 2024 Joint Conference, Paestum (IT), 25-28 March, 2024
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Borra, Federico; Savelli, Claudio; Rosso, Giacomo; Koudounas, Alkis; Giobergia, Flavio (2024)
MALTO at SemEval-2024 Task 6: Leveraging Synthetic Data for LLM Hallucination Detection. In: 18th International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation (SemEval-2024), Mexico City (MEX), 20-21 June, 2024, pp. 1678-1684
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Koudounas, Alkis; Giobergia, Flavio; Pastor, Eliana; Baralis, Elena (2024)
A Contrastive Learning Approach to Mitigate Bias in Speech Models. In: Interspeech 2024, Kos (GRC), 1-5 September 2024, pp. 827-831
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
Koudounas, Alkis; Pastor, Eliana; Baralis, Elena (2024)
Assessing Speech Model Performance: A Subgroup Perspective. In: SEBD 2024: 32nd Symposium on Advanced Database System, Villasimius, Sardinia (IT), 23-26 June, 2024, pp. 101-111
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)
LA QUATRA, Moreno; Koudounas, Alkis; Baralis, Elena; Marco Siniscalchi, Sabato (2024)
Speech Analysis of Language Varieties in Italy. In: 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024), Torino (IT), 20-25 May, 2024, pp. 15147-15159
Contributo in Atti di Convegno (Proceeding)