Spyros Gidaris

Senior Research Scientist at valeo.ai

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I am a Senior Research Scientist at valeo.ai in Paris, France. My main research focuses on efficient perception (spanning low-shot learning, self-supervised representation learning, and vision foundation models) and scalable generative modeling for vision and language data.

I completed my Ph.D. in 2018 at École des Ponts ParisTech, where I was a member of the Imagine group, under the supervision of Nikos Komodakis. The thesis was recognized with two best thesis awards from the Fondation des Ponts and Université Paris-Est. I completed my undergraduate degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece.

news

Sep 18, 2025 Three papers accepted to NeurIPS 2025 (one spotlight)! ReDi (spotlight), DINO-Foresight, and MuToR. Thread X / Bluesky
Aug 17, 2025 I will be serving as Area Chair at CVPR 2026.
Jul 21, 2025 New release from Valeo.ai: Franca, a high-performing, fully open-source vision foundation model (data, code, weights). It matches and sometimes outperform DINOv2/SigLIPv2/CLIP on ViT-G, setting a new open-source standard. GitHub.
Jun 25, 2025 DIP was accepted to ICCV 2025. Thread X / Bluesky
May 01, 2025 EQ-VAE was accepted to ICML 2025. Thread X / Bluesky
Feb 26, 2025 FUTURIST was accepted to CVPR 2025. Thread X / Bluesky
Jan 15, 2025 Our TMLR paper, MOCA, on self-supervised learning (led by me) has been selected for presentation at ICLR 2025.
Sep 18, 2024 FUNGI was accepted to NeurIPs.
Sep 14, 2024 I will be serving as Area Chair at CVPR 2025.
Feb 26, 2024 Two papers accepted to CVPR 2024 (one highlight!): ScaLR and SPOT (highlight)