Education
Sep 2022
B.Sc. in Informatics and TelecommunicationsNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens
- GPA: 8.69 / 10.00
- Track: Computer Science
- Specialization: Data and Knowledge Management
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Thesis: "GreekQA: A Crowdsourcing Platform and its Use for Creating a Greek Question Answering Dataset"
- Advisor: Prof. Manolis Koubarakis
Professional and Research Experience
Jan 2023 — Present
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens — MaDgIK Group, AI TeamResearch 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 TeamUndergraduate 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 CompanyData 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 CompanyData 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 AssistantNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens
K08: Data Structures & Algorithms, Spring 2023
Fall 2022
Laboratory Teaching AssistantNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens
YS02: Artificial Intelligence, Fall 2022
Spring 2020
Undergraduate Laboratory Teaching AssistantNational 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 |