Petros Zerfos Principal Research Scientist & Manager at IBM Research
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My research interests lie in the areas of data engineering for Generative AI, applied AI/machine learning, Big Data systems, time series analysis and forecasting, and distributed systems, quantitative finance, and decentralized finance.
– IBM Research: https://research.ibm.com/people/petros-zerfos
– Publications and patents from Google Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IaB4_j0AAAAJ&hl=en
Specialties: Leading technology R&D projects from concept to scaling and product adoption, technology transfer and productization, competition analysis, quantitative analysis, intellectual property protection.
UCLA Ph.D., Computer Science
- Activities and societies: IEEE, ACM, IETFActivities and societies: IEEE, ACM, IETF
- Dissertation: “Enterprise Wireless Access Networks: Systems and Applications”.
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