Emmanouil (Manos) Koukoumidis

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I am currently an Engineering Manager at Google (Cloud AI). Before Google, I was the Director of Engineering for Biscuit Labs (pre-Series A smart home startup). I have also worked in the past, in reverse chronological order, at Facebook (Portal Assistant), Microsoft (Zo chatbot, Cortana), MIT, Microsoft Research, SMART Center (Singapore), CERN (Geneva, Switzerland), and ICCS (Athens, Greece).

I completed my PhD in Princeton University focusing on mobile-cloud intelligent systems co-design. This work seeded a lot of the ideas for what was seven years later called "edge intelligence."

For more information please checkout my LinkedIn profile.

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Patents

• Proximity sensor-based interactions
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Brian Beckman, Sumit Kumar, Konstantinos Aisopos
  Microsoft Corp, 2012. US Patent App. 9,652,044
• Conversation bot discovery and response fusion
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Joseph Edwin Johnson, Donald Brinkman, Dustin Abramson, Oussama Elachqar, Hailong Mu, Maria Alexandropoulou
  Microsoft Corp, 2020. US Patent App. 10,581,765
• Conversational system user experience
  Joseph Edwin Johnson, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Donald Brinkman, Hailong Mu, Dustin Abramson, Hudong Wang, VANN Dan, Youssef Hammad
  Microsoft Corp, 2020. US Patent App. 10,535,344
• Response retrieval using communication session vectors
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Joseph Edwin Johnson, Hailong Mu, Matthew W Schuerman, Ying Wang
  Microsoft Corp, 2019. US Patent App. 10,374,982
• Geofence compositions
  Namita Parab, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Norm Bryar
  Microsoft Corp, 2018. US Patent 10,136,251
• Conversational system user behavior identification
  Joseph Edwin Johnson, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Donald Brinkman, Matthew Schuerman
  Microsoft Corp, 2019. US Patent 10,120,866
• Conversationally-relevant content requests
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Joseph Edwin Johnson, Dustin Isaac Abramson, Steven Gary Zittrower, Di Li, Ying Wang
  Microsoft Corp, 2018. US Patent App. 15/622,590
• Memorable event detection, recording, and exploitation
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Joseph Johnson, Dustin I Abramson, Maria A Rangel, Ying Wang, Di Li, Steven G Zittrower, Hailong Mu, Kelli A Stuckart, Hudong Wang, Pengfei Hao, Donald F Brinkman, Kati A London, Zhan Chen
  Microsoft Corp, 2018. US Patent App. 15/624,141
• Emotional intelligence for a conversational chatbot
  Ying Wang, Qi Yao, Maria Alexandropoulou, Konstantinos Aisopos, Di Li, Oussama Elachqar, Emmanouil Koukoumidis
  Microsoft Corp, 2018. US Patent App. 15/617,093
• Systems and methods for a mathematical chat bot
  Joseph Edwin Johnson, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Daniel Vann, Hailong Mu
  Microsoft Corp, 2018. US Patent App. 15/617,093
• EQ-digital conversation assistant
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Daniel Massey, Dustin Abramson, Donald F Brinkman Jr, Scott A Schwarz, Sergei Tuterov, Ying Wang, Qi Yao, Adam E Shirey, Maria Alexandropoulou, Kelli Stuckart, Hudong Wang
  Microsoft Corp, 2018. US Patent App. 15/389,817
• Geofences from context and crowd-sourcing
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Norm Bryar, Christopher Alme, Namita Parab, Stephen Lawler, Anthony Bice, Vanya Avramova
  Microsoft Corp, 2015. US Patent 20,150,148,061
• Modular Electronic Data Analysis Computing System
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Cezar Augusto Alevatto Guimaraes Neto, Adam Edward Shirey, Anthony Turner, Brian J. Alseth, Daniel Lee Massey, Michael Andrews, Richard P. Lozada
  Microsoft Corp, 2016. US Patent App. 20,170,286,503
• Content reaction annotations
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Brian Beckman, Nicholas Donald Atkins Lane, Arjmand Micheal Samuel
  Microsoft Corp, 2012. US Patent 9,721,010
• Dynamic TDMA system for TV white space MIMO wireless
  Carroll Philip Gossett, Yuan Yuan, C Yu Kevin, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Xiaofang Jiang, Michial Allen Gunter
  Google Inc, 2016. US Patent 8,699,411
• Push-based recommendations
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Brian Beckman, James Anthony Whittaker
  Microsoft Corp, 2016. US Patent 9,269,098
• Discovery of viewsheds and vantage points by mining geo-tagged data
  Vanya Avramova, Christopher Alme, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Norm Bryar, Anthony Bice, Arjun Sundararajan, Mohamed H Ali
  Microsoft Corp, 2015. US Patent App. 14/156,651
• Crowd-sourced parking advisory
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Brian Beckman, Norm Bryar, Elad Gerson
  Microsoft Corp, 2015. US Patent 8,963,740
• Dynamic community-based cache for mobile search
  Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Jie Liu, Feng Zhao, Douglas Christopher Burger
  Microsoft Corp, 2015. US Patent 8,943,043
• Embedded content presentation
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Brian C Beckman, Gur Kimchi
  Microsoft Corp, 2014. US Patent App. 13/712,505
• Turn restriction inferencing
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Brian C Beckman
  Microsoft Corp, 2014. US Patent App. 13/683,857
• Random shuffling mechanism for MIMO wireless system
  Carroll Philip Gossett, Yuan Yuan, C Yu Kevin, Xiaofang Jiang, Michial Allen Gunter, Emmanouil Koukoumidis
  Google Inc, 2013. US Patent 8,565,138
• Scalable association scheme for TV white-space MIMO wireless system
  Carroll Philip Gossett, Yuan Yuan, C Yu Kevin, Xiaofang Jiang, Michial Allen Gunter, Emmanouil Koukoumidis
  Google Inc, 2013. US Patent 8,396,086

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Publications

• Leveraging Smartphone Cameras for Collaborative Road Advisories   Spotlight Paper
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Margaret Martonosi and Li-Shiuan Peh.
  In the IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, 2012.
• Meteor Shower: A Reliable Stream Processing System for Commodity Data Centers
  Huayong Wang, Li-Shiuan Peh, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Shao Tao and Mun Choon Chan.
  In the 26th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium, May 2012.
• SignalGuru: Leveraging Mobile Phones for Collaborative Traffic Signal Schedule Advisory   Best Paper Award
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Li-Shiuan Peh and Margaret Martonosi.
  In the 9th International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services (MobiSys), June 2011.
  More information on SignalGuru..
• RegReS: Adaptively Maintaining a Target Density of Regional Services in Opportunistic Vehicular Networks
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Li-Shiuan Peh and Margaret Martonosi.
  In the 9th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom), March 2011.
• Pocket Cloudlets
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Karin Strauss, Jie Liu, and Doug Burger.
  In the Sixteenth International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS), March 2011.
• Adaptive Spatiotemporal Node Selection in Dynamic Networks
  Pradip Hari, John McCabe, Jonathan Banafato, Marcus Henry, Kevin Ko, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Ulrich Kremer, Margaret Martonosi, and Li-Shiuan Peh.
  In the Nineteenth International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT'10), September 2010.
• Improving Mobile Search Experience with SONGO
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, Jie Liu, and Doug Burger.
  No. MSR-TR-2010-15, February 2010.
• Location-based Trust for Mobile User-Generated Contents: Applications, Challenges and Implementations
  Vincent Lenders, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Pei Zhang and Margaret Martonosi.
  In the 9th IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (HotMobile), February 2008.
• SARANA: Language, Compiler, and Runtime System Support for Spatially-Aware and Resource-Aware Mobile Computing
  Pradip Hari, Kevin Ko, Emmanouil Koukoumidis, Ulrich Kremer, Margaret Martonosi, Desiree Ottoni, Li Shiuan Peh and Pei Zhang.
  Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, 2008.

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Theses

• Collaborative and adaptive mobile device-resident service architectures
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis.
  Ph.D. Thesis, Princeton University, 2011.
• Development of an extensible network platform for real time data collection and fusion in intelligent vehicles' networks
  Emmanouil Koukoumidis.
  Diploma Thesis, National Technical University of Athens, 2006.

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Press

Selected Press:

• TechCrunch: Microsoft officially outs another AI chatbot, called Zo
• Mashable: Hands On With Cortana, Windows Phone's New Digital Assistant (Geofencing)
• Microsoft News: Microsoft’s AI vision, rooted in research, conversations
• YouTube, TV News: Siri vs. Cortana - Happy Anniversary (Geofencing - "Remind me to buy rose at a flower shop")
• MIT news: Increasing fuel efficiency with a smartphone
• TIME magazine: Traffic App by MIT and Princeton Could Change Driving Forever
• The Economist: APPlied logic
• Forbes: Calling on Smartphones for Better MPG
• Scientific American: Smartphone System Saves Gas
• Slashdot: SignalGuru Helps Drivers Avoid Red Lights
• Mashable: Why the Future of Transportation Is All About Real-Time Data
• CNN, Wired: Cars don't waste fuel. Drivers waste fuel
• The New York Times: Research: Using Smartphones for Frugal Driving
• cnet: Dashboard phones track traffic light wait times, Meet Zo, Microsoft's newest AI chatbot
• engadget: SignalGuru uses a smartphone camera to help you manage traffic lights, save fuel
• ExtremeTech: How a smartphone camera can cut fuel costs 20% at rush hour
• BostInnovation: Joint MIT/Princeton Researchers Develop Mobile System To Help You Avoid Red Lights & Save Gas While Driving

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you will be more dissappointed
by the things that you didn't do
than by the ones you did.
So throw off the bowlines.
sail away from the safe harbor.
Catch the trade winds in your sails.
Explore. Dream. Discover.
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Polish proverb


Imagination is more important than knowledge...
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