
Yannis Assael
DPhil candidate in Machine Learning
University of Oxford
University of Oxford
Distinction, 81.8%, 2nd best overall performance
2014 - 2015 Imperial CollegeDistinction, 83.5%, best overall performance
2013 - 2014 University of OxfordDistinction A, ECTS 7.5
2011 Engineering College of Copenhagen (IHK)83.7%, 4-Years
2008 - 2013 University of Macedonia17.8 / 20
2002 - 2008 American College Anatoliafull scholarship for DPhil in Machine Learning, 2015 - 2018.
full scholarship for MRes program of "HiPEDS", 2014 - 2015.
full scholarship for MSc in University of Oxford, 2013-2014.
Blender 3D Design, EU Media Program Scholarship, 2011 - Sofia, Bulgaria.
Blender 3D Design, EU Media Program Scholarship, 2010 - Sofia, Bulgaria.
1. | Chen, Yutian; Assael, Yannis; Shillingford, Brendan; Budden, David; Reed, Scott; Zen, Heiga; Wang, Quan; Cobo, Luis C; Trask, Andrew; Laurie, Ben; Sample Efficient Adaptive Text-to-Speech, arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.10460, 2018. |
2. | Shillingford, Brendan; Assael, Yannis; Hoffman, Matthew W; Paine, Thomas; Hughes, Cían; Prabhu, Utsav; Liao, Hank; Sak, Hasim; Rao, Kanishka; Bennett, Lorrayne; Large-scale visual speech recognition, arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.05162, 2018. |
3. | Goumagias, Nikolaos D; Hristu-Varsakelis, Dimitrios; Assael, Yannis M; Using deep Q-learning to understand the tax evasion behavior of risk-averse firms, Expert Systems with Applications, 101, 2018, 258-270. |
4. | Ponte Costa, Rui; Assael, Yannis; Shillingford, Brendan; de Freitas, Nando; Vogels, Tim; Cortical microcircuits as gated-recurrent neural networks, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2017, 272-283. |
5. | Assael, Yannis M; Antoniadis, Konstantinos D; Assael, Marc J; From analog timers to the era of machine learning: The case of the transient hot-wire technique, AIP Conference Proceedings, 1866, 1, 2017, 020001. |
6. | Assael, Yannis M; Shillingford, Brendan; Whiteson, Shimon; de Freitas, Nando; LipNet: End-to-End Sentence-level Lipreading, GPU Technology Conference, 2017, 2016. |
7. | Mossalam, Hossam; Assael, Yannis M; Roijers, Diederik M; Whiteson, Shimon; Multi-Objective Deep Reinforcement Learning, NIPS Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop, 2016. |
8. | Foerster, Jakob N; Assael, Yannis M; de Freitas, Nando; Whiteson, Shimon; Learning to Communicate with Deep Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning, Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2016. |
9. | Foerster, Jakob N; Assael, Yannis M; de Freitas, Nando; Whiteson, Shimon; Learning to Communicate to Solve Riddles with Deep Distributed Recurrent Q-Networks, IJCAI Workshop, 2016. |
10. | Assael, John-Alexander M.; Wahlström, Niklas; Schön, Thomas B; Deisenroth, Marc Peter; Data-Efficient Learning of Feedback Policies from Image Pixels using Deep Dynamical Models, NIPS Deep Reinforcement Learning Workshop, 2015. |
11. | Assael, John-Alexander M.; Deisenroth, Marc Peter; From Pixels to Torques: Policy Learning using Deep Dynamical Convolutional Networks, 2015. |
12. | Assael, Marc J; Antoniadis, Konstantinos D; Metaxa, Ifigeneia N; Mylona, Sofia K; Assael, John-Alexander M.; Wu, Jiangtao; Hu, Miaomiao; A Novel Portable Absolute Transient Hot-Wire Instrument for the Measurement of the Thermal Conductivity of Solids, International Journal of Thermophysics, 36, 10-11, 2015, 3083-3105. |
13. | Kouzinopoulos, Charalampos S.; Assael, John-Alexander M.; Pyrgiotis, Themistoklis K.; Margaritis, Konstantinos G.; A Hybrid Parallel Implementation of the Aho-Corasick and Wu-Manber Algorithms Using NVIDIA CUDA and MPI Evaluated on a Biological Sequence Database, International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools, 24, 1, 2015, 1540001. |
14. | Assael, John-Alexander M.; Wang, Ziyu; Shahriari, Bobak; de Freitas, Nando; Heteroscedastic Treed Bayesian Optimisation, NIPS Workshop on Bayesian Optimization, 2014. |
15. | Assael, John-Alexander M.; Margaritis, Konstantinos; String Matching on hybrid parallel architectures, an approach using MPI and NVIDIA CUDA, http://www.yannisassael.com/publications/assael_uom_dissertation.pdf, 2013. |
16. | Assael, M. J.; Assael, John-Alexander M.; Kakosimos, K.; Discomfort Indices - www.airquality.gr, Technographima (Journal of the Technical Chamber of Greece), 362, 2008, 12-13. |
17. | Assael, M.J.; Kakosimos, K.E.; Alexandridis, A.; Assael, John-Alexander M.; Study and Application of Discomfort Indices in Greece, 7th National Scientific Chemical Engineering Conference, Patra, 2009, Proceedings. |
18. | Assael, M.J.; Kakosimos, K.E.; Antoniadis, K.D.; Assael, John-Alexander M.; Applying Thermal Comfort Indices to Investigate Aspects of the Climate Change in Greece, International Review of Chemical Engineering, 2, 2010, 204-209. |
19. | Assael, MJ; Assael, Y. M.; Huber, ML; Perkins, RA; Takata, Y; Correlation of the Thermal Conductivity of Normal and Parahydrogen from the Triple Point to 1000 K and up to 100 MPa, Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data, 40, 3, 2011, 033101-033101-13. |