Giannis Assael, 29 years old who grew up in Thessaloniki. In 2008 he graduated from Anatolia College and then studied Applied Informatics at the University of Makedonia.
For the past 4 years he has been working as a researcher at Google, at DeepMind, where he uses machine learning in order to face the challenges of artificial intelligence.
"I am trying to deal with problems that have not been resolved to date," Assel said of his approach to news agencies.
He continued his postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford, where he later also completed his PhD.
Mr. Assel, in collaboration with other scientists, developed a lip-reading model, LipNet, a system that looks at video without sound, noticing how people talk.
The important thing is that it can guess what the person is saying with 93% accuracy, watching the movement of the speaker's mouth. Additionally, Assael, in his latest project uses neural networks in order to restore missing parts of ancient Greek texts.
Next on the list is also Mrs. Marianna Kapsetaki from Heraklion, Crete.
She is a doctor, a researcher, and a classical pianist. She is in the process of completing her PhD in Cognitive Neuroscience at Imperial College London, and has already made numerous publications in major international scientific journals.
"You learn about all the medical problems that those involved in the performing arts have," she explains.
Mr. Kapsetaki is conducting one of the largest studies on spatial memory in patients suffering from stroke.
Continuing, in the "Science" category of Forbes list, Konstantina Theofanopoulou, a postdoctoral researcher at Rockefeller University, was also distinguished.
The 28year old studied Linguistics at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens and then continued with postgraduate studies at the University of Barcelona in the field of Language and Cognitive Science.
The postdoctoral researcher, originally from Tripoli, lives in the USA conducting Bio-information research. Her research interests are Neurobiology of language, and Evolutionary Genetics.
In the "Industry" category of the list, was Mr. George Kalligeros, who was born and raised in Athens.
The 27-year-old studied Mechanical Engineering at the University of Bath in the city of the same name, in England. He worked in Great Britain at Bentley Motors, and later found himself at Tesla.
Returning to the University of Bath for his postgraduate studies, he showed an interest in studying the bicycle as a modern means of urban transport. Together with Dan Keene, they co-founded Pushme, a company that has developed charging infrastructure for energy-efficient products.
Their company was acquired by TIER (a well-known European electric scooter rental company) in the early 2020 and is currently in the process of expanding its network to 4,500 locations in 85 different cities.
