Pantelis Vafidis (Preferred)
Pantelis Vafidis
Researcher, GenAI, Facebook
Joined
January 2024
Names
Emails
****@caltech.edu (Confirmed)
****@gmail.com (Confirmed)
Personal Links
Career & Education History
Researcher
GenAI, Facebook (meta.com)
2025 – Present
PhD student
Computation & Neural Systems, California Institute of Technology (caltech.edu)
2019 – 2025
Intern
ML for Search & Recommendations, Instacart (instacart.com)
2024 – 2024
Intern
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (cshl.edu)
2023 – 2023
MS student
Bernstein Center for Computational Neuroscience, Technische Universität Berlin (tu-berlin.de)
2017 – 2019
Undergrad student
Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (auth.gr)
2012 – 2017
Advisors, Relations & Conflicts
Coauthor
Richard Kempter
2018 – 2019
Expertise
LLM post-training
2025 – Present
Reinforcement Learning
2025 – Present
AI Agents
2025 – Present
LLMs
2023 – Present
Representation learning
2022 – Present
Predictive coding
2018 – Present
RNNs
2017 – Present
Machine Learning
2017 – Present
Theoretical Neuroscience
2017 – Present