Spyros Gidaris
Senior Research Scientist at valeo.ai

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 |
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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) |