Curriculum Vitæ

Konstantinos Tsetsos

Address & Personal Details

Office 201, 2nd floor Phone: +447858475841

26 Bedford Way Email: k.tsetsos@ucl.ac.uk
London WC1H 0AP Date of birth: 19/01/1983
United Kingdom. Nationality: Greek

Research Interests
Judgment and Decision Making, Perceptual Choice, Computational models of
higher level cognition, Neuroeconomics, Neural Coding, Machine Learning, Nat-
ural Language Processing.

Education
10/2008–present Ph.D. candidate in Cognitive, Perceptual, and Brain Sciences, Division
of Psychology, University College London, University of London.
• Supervisors: Prof. Nick Chater, Prof. Marius Usher.
10/2007–09/2008 MRes in Psychology with distinction, School of Psychology, Birkbeck Col-
lege, University of London.
• MRes thesis: “Contrasting Neurocomputational Models of Value-based Decision-
making”, supervised by Prof. Marius Usher. (91%,“A”).
09/2006–09/2007 MSc in Cognitive Science, School of Informatics College of Science and En-
gineering, University of Edinburgh.
• Specialism: Neural computation & Neuroinformatics (major)/ Natural lan-
guage & Language engineering (minor).
• Modules taken: Attended 10 modules(average mark in the coursework 70%,“A”).
• MSc thesis: “Optimal noise in ganglion cells”, supervised by Dr. Mark van
Rossum (63%,’B’).
10/2001–03/2006 BSc in Informatics, Department of Informatics, Athens University of Eco-
nomics and Business.
• Average mark: 7.08/10, “Very Good”, 2:1 equivalent.
• Degree Thesis: “Data Mining and Information Administration in Social Soft-
ware”, supervised by Prof. K. Courcoubetis (9/10, ’Excellent’).
Working Experience
04/2008-present Research Analyst, Decision Technology, London-U.K.
07/2009-08/2009 Research Assistant (short-term), collaboration with Stanford University and
Tel Aviv University on perceptual choice.
09/2008-05/2009 Demonstrator, 2nd year undergraduate laboratory for “Research and Quanti-
tative Methods in Psychology”, UCL.
03/2009-04/2009 Research Assistant (short-term) on perceptual choice, Tel Aviv University.
06/2008-07/2008 Research Assistant (short-term), collaboration with Stanford University on
perceptual choice, Birkbeck College.
09/2005–03/2006 Analyst-Programmer, Department of Electronic Lexicography, Institute for
Language & Speech Processing (www.ilsp.gr), Athens-Greece.

Technical skills
• Programming Languages: Java, C/C++, Python, Prolog, .Net technologies, Assembly, For-
tran, Ox.
• Databases: Postgres, MySQL, MS SQL Server, MS Access.
• Scripting Languages: PHP, Javascript, AWK, C-shell.
• Web: HTML, DHTML, CSS, XML, XHTML.
• Operating Systems: Windows (2000/XP), Linux (Fedora, SuSe, Ubuntu).
• Modeling Software: Matlab, Neuron, PDP++, Topographica.
• A.I. Software: CLIPS, Weka, TnT Tagger.
• Specialized Environments: SPSS, LATEX.

Talks & Presentations

Tsetsos, K., Usher, M., & Chater, N. (August 2009). “Contrasting computational models of pref-
erence reversal in multi-attribute choice”, poster at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for
Mathematical Psychology,Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Usher, M., Tsetsos, K., Teodorescu A. (August 2009). “Contrasting models of perceptual choice”, talk
at the 42nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Mathematical Psychology, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Awards & Scholarships

2001–2006 A.I.G. Foundation, Institute of International Education, International scholar-
ship program for undergraduate and postgraduate studies.
1995–2000 Academic Excellence Award by the Greek Ministry of Education for each grade
of High and Senior High School.