Me

Konstantinos (Kokos) Kogkalidis

Postdoctoral Researcher
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning
Aalto University
Office A3.14, Konemiehentie 2, 02150 Espoo
kokos.kogkalidis@aalto.fi
Hey!

I am Kokos (he/him).

On Mondays and Tuesdays I am a ML research scientist by Skyfora, where I'm doing climate stuff with neural networks. During the rest of the week I am a post-doctoral researcher in Aalto University, doing neurosymbolic machine learning. Before moving to Finland, I received both my PhD (CompLing) and my master's degree (AI) from Utrecht University. While in Utrecht, I was also working remotely as a machine learning engineer at geekbot.io. Before all that, I received my diploma in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

My published research revolves around structured machine learning, neurosymbolic reasoning, and type-driven approaches to syntactic parsing and semantic compositionality, among others. 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.

Thesis

My dissertation, titled Dependency as Modality, Parsing as Permutation: A Neurosymbolic Perspective on Categorial Grammars, introduces a modal extension to type-logical grammars, aimed at capturing dependency roles. It explores the parsing-as-deduction paradigm, but from the angle of a machine learning practitioner. 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):

Teaching

I am not currenly teaching. Previously, I taught the 2020 edition of the Logic & Language course in the AI Master's programme of Utrecht University.
Aside that, I assisted in various capacities with the following courses: