Miltiadis Kofinas

My name is Miltiadis (Miltos) Kofinas and I am a Postdoctoral researcher in the Climate Extremes Group at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, advised by Dim Coumou. My research focuses on the development of AI methods for climate science, and especially on foundation models for weather forecasting. My research interests include graph neural networks, neural fields, geometric deep learning, and parameter-space networks.

I completed my PhD in the Video & Image Sense Lab at the University of Amsterdam, supervised by Efstratios Gavves. My research initially focused on future spatio-temporal forecasting, with applications on forecasting for autonomous vehicles, and later switched focus to neural fields and parameter-space networks.

Prior to my PhD, I received a Diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. For my Diploma thesis, I researched the topic of Scene Graph Generation using Graph Neural Networks, supervised by Christos Diou and Anastasios Delopoulos. During my studies, I was a computer vision & machine learning engineer at P.A.N.D.O.R.A. Robotics.