Tasos Panagopoulos

Tasos (Anastasios) Panagopoulos represented Greece at the International Olympiad in Informatics in 2018, 2019 and 2020, winning a bronze medal each year under the Codeforces handle 'anpans'. He studied at the University of Pennsylvania, earning a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science (2020-2024) and a Master's degree in Robotics (2022-2024). At Penn he was an undergraduate research assistant in the GRASP Lab's PAL Group under Dr. Dinesh Jayaraman, working on computer vision and machine learning, and served as Vice President of Operations of Penn Aerial Robotics; he co-authored an ICRA 2024 paper on object-centric vision transformers for manipulation policies. He also worked as a teaching assistant for CIS 2620 and as a computer consultant at Penn's CETS. A LinkedIn index record additionally lists a Software Engineer Intern role at Jane Street (New York) in 2023, which is not independently corroborated.

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• Quant employment verification: UNRESOLVED. The only employment lead pointing at quantitative finance is a 'Software Engineer Intern at Jane Street (New York), 2023' role that appears solely in the LinkedIn index record; no independent primary source (Jane Street page, news, personal site, a second profile) corroborates it. Jane Street IS a genuine quantitative trading firm / market maker, so the employer classification itself is valid, but the role and its dates rest on index-only evidence. Identity of the subject is supported by multiple cross-links, so the outcome is UNRESOLVED rather than NOT CONFIRMED: no actual role is confirmed, but the single sourced lead is plausible and uncorroborated rather than contradicted. No other quant-finance role (bank, asset manager, energy, crypto, hedge fund) appears in any source. Student programs alone would not qualify, and none were found.2023
• Identity confirmation (name + Codeforces cross-link): the IOI statistics profile for Anastasios Panagopoulos (Greece, IOI 2018/2019/2020) links the Codeforces handle 'anpans'; the LinkedIn record uses the same username 'anpans' and the GitHub account 'anpans' is a Tasos Panagopoulos. Three independent linkage points connect the Olympiad identity to the Penn CS/robotics profile.2020
• [index-only] Index employment record lists a Software Engineer Intern role at Jane Street (New York) in 2023, plus Penn roles: TA for CIS 2620 (2022-2024), Computer Consultant at CETS (2021-2024), Undergraduate Research Assistant at the GRASP Lab (2021-2024). Index record, not primary-source confirmation.2023
• IOI medal record: competed for Greece at IOI 2018, 2019 and 2020, earning a bronze medal each year (IOI 2020 rank 129).2020
• [index-only] LinkedIn index record: 'Tasos Panagopoulos', CS + ROBO @ Penn; Master's in Robotics (2022-2024) and Bachelor's in Computer Science (2020-2024), University of Pennsylvania. Index record, not primary-source confirmation.2024
• Penn CURF research profile (Class of 2024, Computer Science): self-describes research interests in computer vision and machine learning, doing research under Dr. Dinesh Jayaraman at the GRASP lab, and served as Vice President of Operations of Penn Aerial Robotics.2023
• Peer-reviewed research: co-author (with Jianing Qian and Dinesh Jayaraman) of 'Recasting Generic Pretrained Vision Transformers As Object-Centric Scene Encoders For Manipulation Policies' (May 2024), a robotics manipulation-policy paper — consistent with the GRASP Lab research-assistant role.May 2024
• Peer-reviewed research: co-author (with Jianing Qian and Dinesh Jayaraman) of 'Recasting Generic Pretrained Vision Transformers As Object-Centric Scene Encoders For Manipulation Policies', published at ICRA 2024 (listed as item 30 in Jayaraman's Penn CV) — consistent with the GRASP Lab research-assistant and robotics focus.2024
• GitHub account 'anpans' (Tasos Panagopoulos) has 9 public repos and 2 followers, with top languages HTML, JavaScript and C++ — a personal/competitive-project footprint rather than a large open-source presence.2026