Education

Sep 2022
B.Sc. in Informatics and Telecommunications

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

Professional and Research Experience

Jan 2023 — Present
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens — MaDgIK Group, AI Team

Research Associate

  • Conducting various experiments to evaluate the performance of Greek and multilingual language models by fine-tuning on the GreekQA dataset and transfer learning with a zero-shot cross-lingual approach on GreekQA, SQuAD, and FQuAD datasets.
  • Supervising the collection of additional question and answer pairs for the GreekQA dataset by students.
Jan 2022 — Sep 2022
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens — MaDgIK Group, AI Team

Undergraduate Research Assistant

  • Computed the Greek Wikipedia’s internal PageRanks to select high-quality articles in Greek and curated passages.
  • Implemented a web crowdsourcing annotation platform for the collection of question and answer pairs on curated passages.
  • Analyzed the questions, answers, and the reasoning required to answer the questions based on the corresponding passages.
  • Evaluated the human performance on proposed GreekQA dataset for future experimental evaluation of language models.
Nov 2021 — Sep 2022
METIS Cyberspace Technology S.A. — Maritime Digitalization Company

Data Scientist, Machine Learning

  • Improved and extended custom named entity recognition and intent classification of the EU-funded Question Answering System in Maritime (QAMar) project for the purposes and functioning of METIS virtual assistant chatbot.
  • Designed deep learning, tree-based ensemble, and statistical models for maritime tabular data regression and classification.
  • Participated in the development of a vessel speed optimization application targeting fuel consumption minimization based on time-series segmentation, particle swarm optimization, and vessel performance prediction models using maritime weather forecasting.
  • Βuilt data pipelines for the maintenance of tables with a change data capture design through jobs orchestration.
  • Automated the monitoring, retraining and deployment process of ML models building experimental end-to-end MLflow pipelines.
  • Implemented a vessel performance analysis and route cost prediction application for the estimated routes of vessels.
  • Designed and implemented interactive data visualization dashboards of maritime applications for end users.
Jul 2021 — Oct 2021
METIS Cyberspace Technology S.A. — Maritime Digitalization Company

Data Engineer Intern

  • Proposed and implemented an unsupervised univariate sensor data anomaly detection system combining statistical and machine learning techniques. Incorporated this system into a data pipeline that handles over 10 billion raw measurements per month.
  • Built a data reception quality evaluation system that detects and assesses the lost measurements from sensor devices.
  • Evaluated the categorization of sensor devices by applying data profiling and multiclass classification algorithms.

Teaching Experience

Spring 2023
Teaching Assistant

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

K08: Data Structures & Algorithms, Spring 2023
Fall 2022
Laboratory Teaching Assistant

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

YS02: Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2022
Spring 2020
Undergraduate Laboratory Teaching Assistant

National and Kapodistrian University of Athens

K08: Data Structures & Algorithms, Spring 2020

Technical Skills

Programming Languages C, C++, Java, Python, Scala, JavaScript, Bash & C Shell
Programming Paradigms Procedural, Object-Oriented, Functional, Logic
Database Languages SQL, DDL, DQL, DML, TCL
Database Systems PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB, Cloud Firestore
Machine Learning Paradigms Unsupervised, Supervised, Transfer, Multi-Label, One-Shot
Machine Learning Libraries PyTorch, Keras, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM
Data Science & Engineering Tools Apache Spark, Delta Lake, Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Plotly
Miscellaneous Tools Git, Azure Databricks, MLflow, FastAPI, Docker, Jenkins, Numba

Societies & Affiliations

<a href="https://huggingface.co/blog/ambassadors" target="_blank">Hugging Face</a>

Hugging Face

Student Ambassador, 2022

<a href="https://www.singularityugreecesummit.org" target="_blank">Singularity University, Greek Chapter</a>

Singularity University, Greek Chapter

Summit Volunteer, 2019-2021