Savas Parastatidis, MSc., PhD.
I am passionate about leveraging Artificial Intelligence to amplify human capabilities by seamlessly integrating physical and digital contexts. My work focuses on creating intuitive, natural user experiences that bridge the gap between technology and everyday life.
With over 20 years of experience as a technical leader in product delivery and advanced technology R&D, I thrive at the intersection of innovation and execution. Throughout my career, I have contributed to shaping the future of AI-powered products and cutting-edge technologies through impactful roles at industry leaders like Meta’s Reality Labs, Amazon’s Alexa, Microsoft’s Cortana, and Microsoft’s Research.
“This Panda Is Dancing” is a poem that greatly resonates with me. It is about creating technology to “enhance humanity”, to enhance reality. (credit: poetic short film by Max Stossel & Sander van Dijk)
Latest from my blog:
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BrainExpanded – Web app and Data Sources
As I wrote in previous posts, the manual recording of memories for BrainExpanded is just the beginning. Once the basic infrastructure is in place, devices (e.g. phones, laptops, wearables) and applications/services can automatic capture moments from a user’s life such as the articles they encounter, the notes they take, the activities throughout their lives, the…
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BrainExpanded – End-to-end working
Imagine a world where your memory is enhanced by a team of intelligent agents, working tirelessly to keep you organized and informed. Welcome to BrainExpanded. It’s time for an update on BrainExpanded, a system that helps me understand the technologies involved in enhancing our abilities to remember, consume, and organize information. For those who have…
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BrainExpanded – Login State Caching Issue in iOS Share Extension
As part of the BrainExpanded project, I’m building an iOS app that lets users easily add links, text, and images to the “brain’s memory.” Once in the memory, various agents process the content to make it more accessible and useful (see previous posts for a description). The app’s XCode project has two targets: the main…
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Is AI Good or Bad?
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly evolved over the past few decades, becoming an integral part of our daily lives. From enhancing the capabilities of our smartphones to revolutionizing industries such as healthcare, finance, and transportation, AI technologies hold immense potential. But is AI a hero or a villain? This question sparks endless debates as we…
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BrainExpanded – Copilot
Happy New Year everyone! I was planning for my next BrainExpanded post to be a report of the entire end-to-end experience and backend working. However, a coding-related moment with Microsoft’s Github Copilot led me to this note. Previous posts Over the holidays, I made good progress on BrainExpanded. It’s been so much fun! The initial…
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BrainExpanded – The Timeline
See “BrainExpanded – Introduction” for context on this post. Notes and links Over the years, I used various ways to capture personal notes, TODOs, and articles/videos I encountered. I thought that I would go back to them, recall information I captured, and retrieve knowlege from those articles or videos. I used note-capturing apps, bookmarking apps,…
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BrainExpanded – Introduction
This is the first post, in what I think is going to be a series, about another side project of mine: BrainExpanded (yes, I also own the .com and .ai domains, just in case). As mentioned in my “Digital twin follow up” post, BraindExpanded is yet another way for me to learn new technologies and…
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Digital twin follow up
Back in February, I shared the results of some initial experimentation with a digital twin. It was my way of learning tools such as langchain, ollama, vector stores for retrieval, etc. Then work got in the way and I never followed up. Until now. While still thinking about the digital twin, I started pondering about…
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Digital Twin (my playground)
I am embarking on a side project that involves memory and multimodal understanding for an assistant so I wanted to start exploring the technologies involved. My “Digital Twin” is one of my playgrounds for learning and practicing with relevant technologies such as Python, LLMs, Langchain, Ollama, etc. I also started using Swift but that’s a…
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