Danai Brilli

Hello everyone! My name is Danai Brilli and I am a PhD student at MLLS (KU) and MLBio (EPFL) groups, supervised by Prof. Ole Winther and Prof. Maria Brbić. My research focuses on the intersection of AI and Biology, with the goal of building multimodal single-cell foundation models that advance our understanding of disease and enable personalized medicine.

I have graduated from a joint Bs/Ms in Computer Science from the Electrical & Computer Engineering School at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). I recently completed a second MSc in Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine at NTUA, while also working as a researcher in Medical Imaging at the University of Pennsylvania, focusing on AI for brain cancer.

The motivation behind my research has always been to improve human health & quality of life through AI. My research interests lie in leveraging AI to advance our understanding of disease progression, develop personalized treatments and identify new therapeutic targets.

Feel free to reach out to me at my email or Linkedin :)

news

Nov 27, 2025	Our paper “GHR-VQA: Graph-guided Hierarchical Relational Reasoning for Video Question Answering” was presented both orally and as a poster at the SU2HM Workshop at BMVC 2025 and is now available on arXiv. You can find the preprint here.
Nov 03, 2025	I successfully defended my MSc thesis in Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine at NTUA on AI-based methods for brain cancer analysis.
Sep 25, 2025	Our paper GHR-VQA: Graph-guided Hierarchical Relational Reasoning for Video Question Answering was accepted at the 1st Workshop on “From Scene Understanding to Human Modeling” of the British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2025.
Sep 15, 2025	I have started my PhD in Machine Learning in Life Sciences (MLLS) at the University of Copenhagen, supervised by Ole Winther, with co-supervision from Maria Brbić and her MLBio Lab (EPFL), as part of the ELLIS PhD program.
Apr 06, 2025	Website just launched! Stay tuned for updates 🎉