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Curriculum Vitae of Nearchos Potamitis.

Basics

Name Nearchos Potamitis, MSc.
Label PhD Student
Email nearchos.potamitis@cs.au.dk
Url https://potamitisn.github.io
Summary PhD student at Aarhus University researching efficiency and reliability in LLM reasoning.

Work

  • 2025.01 - 2025.07
    Research Assistant
    Aarhus University, Denmark
    Focused on improving the reasoning ability and the cost-quality trade-off of Large Language Models (LLMs). As a first author, two full papers accepted to ICML 2025 and EMNLP 2025. Advisor: Prof. Akhil Arora.
    • ICML 2025
    • EMNLP 2025
  • 2024.09 - 2024.12
    Schuman Trainee
    European Parliament
    Schuman trainee at the AI unit of the European Parliament. Leveraging LLMs to assess whether an application to the Transparency Register adheres to the applicable regulations.
  • 2024.01 - 2024.06
    Student Researcher (Master Thesis)
    DLAB, EPFL, Switzerland
    Introduced Fleet of Agents, a novel framework utilizing LLMs as agents to navigate through dynamic tree searches. Introduced CacheSaver, a framework that facilitates LLM requests by utilizing asynchronous, batched mechanisms. Perfect grade of 6/6 (top 1%).
    • Fleet of Agents
    • CacheSaver
    • 6/6 grade (top 1%)
  • 2023.06 - 2023.09
    Data Science Intern
    Prediggo SA, Switzerland
    Developed an LLM-powered conversational bot to streamline business rule creation, enhancing user experience and accessibility.
  • 2022.11 - 2023.04
    Research Assistant
    EPFL FUSTIC, Switzerland
    Conducted an extensive literature review and led the data collection and analysis of modern urban platforms, evaluating their capabilities in Urban Digital Twins.

Education

  • 2025.01 - 2028.01

    Aarhus, Denmark

    PhD
    Aarhus University, Denmark
    Computer Science
  • 2022.01 - 2024.01

    Lausanne, Switzerland

    MSc
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)
    Data Science
    • Thesis: Fleet of Agents: Coordinated Problem Solving with Large Language Models
  • 2017.01 - 2021.01

    Lausanne, Switzerland

    BSc
    Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Lausanne (EPFL)
    Electrical Engineering

Publications

Skills

Programming
Python
JavaScript
Scala
SQL
C++
Shell scripting
Frameworks
PyTorch
TensorFlow
Hugging Face Transformers
Fast.ai
Pandas
Tools
Git
Docker
NodeJs
Matlab
LaTeX
Power BI
AWS
Microsoft Azure

Languages

Greek
Native
English
Full professional proficiency
French
Limited professional proficiency

Interests

Natural Language Processing
LLM Reasoning
Multi-Agent Systems
Efficient Inference
Machine Learning
Deep Learning
Graph Neural Networks
Statistical Analysis

References

Prof. Akhil Arora
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Aarhus University, Denmark. akhil.arora@cs.au.dk
Prof. Robert West
Associate Professor, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland. robert.west@epfl.ch
Prof. Caglar Gulcehre
Assistant Professor, School of Computer and Communication Sciences, EPFL, Switzerland. caglar.gulcehre@epfl.ch
Dr. Lars Henning Klein
Co-founder and CTO, Timely, EPFL, Switzerland. lars.klein@epfl.ch

Projects