Giannis Bekoulis obtained his joint bachelor and master degree in Computer Science at the University of Patras in 2012.
Then, he worked for two years as a research assistant at Information Technologies Institute (ITI), Center of Research and Technology – Hellas.
In 2014 he moved to Paris where he conducted his master studies on Applied Mathematics for Data Science at École Polytechique.
On January 2016, he joined the IDLab research group at the Information Technology (INTEC) department of Ghent University, as a Ph.D. student.
Since January 2020, he joined ETRO-VUB as a postdoctoral researcher.
His current research interests focus on the Natural Language Processing field and in particular the tasks of entity recognition, relation extraction, fact extraction and verification, and identification of fake news.
NLP, Information Extraction, Fake News Detection