About Me
A brief overview of who I am, what I research and build, and where you can find me online.
ReneGade, ReneGade/TiS and DoomGak. Old, but not forgotten: the first two still sign the source of Sokoban, The Anger of Pharaoh XXXV and the 8-puzzle, written back when a handle was how I signed my programs.
vassilios dot karakoidas at gmail dot com- • Programming languages and compilers
- • Software engineering and software quality
- • Empirical software engineering
- • Large language models and their evaluation
- • Computer security
- • Cloud architecture and data-intensive systems
Improving Sequential Recommendations with LLMs, ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems 4(2), 2026 — DOI (external link, opens in a new tab). The full list is on the publications page.
My tools, libraries and research code are listed on the software page, and the ones still under active development live on GitHub (external link, opens in a new tab).
I write regularly about AI agents and the limits of large language models, programming languages and engineering management — here on the blog. Read also on Medium (external link, opens in a new tab).
Computers, Cinema, RPG, Computer Games, Books, Theatre, Classical Concerts and Opera — most of which turn up in the hobbies posts.
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