
Greetings!
I am Kokos [he/him]. I enjoy (occasionally) thinking, reading, and talking about stuff at the intersection of mathematical logic, linguistics, and machine learning. This website tracks and presents (some of) my work.
Whereabouts / Short CV
For the last two years, I was employed as a post-doctoral researcher at Aalto University, where I had been doing neurosymbolic machine learning. From September 2024 onwards, I spent a few months in Bologna as a visiting researcher.
Before moving to Helsinki, I was located in Utrecht. I received my PhD (CompLing) and my master's degree (AI) from Utrecht University. Before all that, I received a diploma in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.
A longer version of the above can be found at my CV.
Research
My published research revolves around structured representation learning, neurosymbolic reasoning, and type-driven approaches to syntactic parsing and semantic compositionality.
I am especially interested in the interface between formal and data-driven methods;
if that floats your boat rubber duck, you can have a look at my publications page.
My latest output is "Nominal Class Assignment in Swahili: A Computational Account" (CliC-it-2024, October 2024).
Thesis
My dissertation is titled "Dependency as Modality, Parsing as Permutation: A Neurosymbolic Perspective on Categorial Grammars". It advocates for the use of modalities as dependency annotations in type-logical grammars, and explores the parsing-as-deduction paradigm from a contemporary neurosymbolic perspective.
People thought it was good: it is one of the two recipients of the 2024 E. W. Beth Dissertation Prize. You can find a faithful copy of the physical print here. If (for whatever reason) you're interested in an actual physical copy, feel free to send me a message.
Recent & Upcoming Talks
Here's a list of my recent and upcoming talks (more here):
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May 28, 2025 in Groningen
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May 4, 2025 in Virtual
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April 21, 2025 in Gothenburg
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April 7, 2025 in Edinburgh
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December 11, 2024 in VancouverContributed (Poster) @ The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
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December 11, 2024 in VancouverContributed (Poster, Spotlight) @ The Thirty-Eighth Annual Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems
Teaching
I am not currently teaching. Previously, I participated in various capacities in the following courses:
- Compositional Models of Vector-Based Semantics (ESSLLI 2022)
- Logic & Language (2020-2021, main lecturer)
- Logic & Language (2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2021-2022, lectures & project supervision)
- Machine Learning for Human Vision & Language (2019-2020, tutorials)
- Advanced Topics in Cognitive Modelling (2018-2019, tutorials)