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Lazaros is a Partner within the EY Consulting practice in Greece, leading the EY AI/GenAI Center of Excellence and the EY Robotics Lab within the EY AI & Data Center of Excellence in Athens, Greece. He has also served as EY Consulting AI Leader in the Europe, Middle East, India and Africa (EMEIA) region from 2022 to 2024.
He specializes in AI/GenAI projects across language, image, video and audio formats, as well as in robotics systems, supporting businesses and organizing AI Factories in the EMEIA region and around the world.
Before joining EY, Lazaros held senior research and leadership positions at a leading technology company focused on AI dialogue systems, as well at a prominent research center specializing in cognitive technologies, where he worked on projects related to speech recognition and multimodal interfaces. Moreover, he has held academic positions at the American College of Greece (Deree) and the Athens Information Technology (AIT) research center (in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon University), reaching the level of Associate Dean.
Lazaros holds a PhD and an MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and a Diploma in EECS from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA).
His scientific contributions include more than 50 publications in international scientific journals and more than 70 papers presented in peer-reviewed international conferences, as well as the editorship of a book on artificial intelligence.
He holds 13 international patents and is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Additionally, Lazaros has served in organizing committees and review boards of several international scientific journals, conferences, and workshops.
How is Lazaros building a better working world?
“If I can change one life, I can change the world”. AI, being the pinnacle of human inventions – so far – can assist in addressing business and societal challenges on a broad scale and accelerate the development and adoption of solutions. It has the potential to help governments and businesses improve their services, and individuals to prosper by getting more out of our lives.
AI can also help society address the greatest existential challenges we are facing, such as climate change and social inequality. Being part of this AI revolution is exciting and probably an opportunity that comes only once in a lifetime.
The solutions our teams develop at the EY AI/GenAI Center of Excellence and the EY Robotics Lab in Athens, benefit organizations and individuals, transform the way we work, and prepare us for a future of immense technical, business and societal impact.