About me

I'm an AI Engineer and Researcher at the Greek National Centre of Scientific Research 'Demokritos', specializing in neurosymbolic AI and machine learning applications in biomedical research. I hold a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens.

My work focuses on developing hybrid ML approaches that combine neural networks with symbolic reasoning for complex event recognition, cancer progression modeling, and forecasting applications.

News & Announcements

  • Currently working on a paper for Nature Machine Intelligence on interpretable hybrid ML approaches for cancer progression modeling, in collaboration with Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
  • My startup Calt won multiple innovation awards including 2nd place at Hack2BRIDGE (€3,000), 3rd place at Innovation Attica, and 2nd place at Ennovation Accelerator (€1,000).
  • Completed my M.Eng. thesis on "Exploration and Classification of Breast Cancer Stages using Genomic Data" achieving 80% F1-macro score with ML models and explainability metrics.

In a Nutshell: What I'm doing

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    Cancer Progression Modeling with Hybrid ML

    Currently developing interpretable hybrid ML approaches to model cancer progression in synthetic temporal gene expression datasets, in collaboration with the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Paper in preparation for Nature Machine Intelligence.

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    Neurosymbolic AI for Complex Event Recognition

    Developing neurosymbolic pipelines combining MLPs with HMMs for forecasting Covid-19 cases and implementing forward recognition frameworks using Neural Networks with DFAs for deadlock recognition from robotic trajectory data.

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    Calt: AI-Powered Event Discovery Platform

    Built an AI-driven recommendation system for cultural events with universal web scraper using LLMs. Won multiple awards: 2nd place Hack2BRIDGE (€3,000), 3rd place Innovation Attica, 2nd place Ennovation Accelerator. Visit Calt

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    Breast Cancer Classification using Genomic Data

    Master's thesis achieving 80% F1-macro score using ML models and explainability metrics for single-cell RNA sequencing gene expression data. Focused on data-centric AI and handling imbalanced datasets.

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    Full Stack Development & MLOps

    Experience as Full Stack Engineer at Wealthyhood fintech startup and MLOps Engineer at Arrikto, integrating Python libraries for parallel computing in Kubeflow and developing financial data platforms.

Resume

Education

  1. M.Eng. in Electrical and Computer Engineering

    Sep. 2018 — Jul. 2024

    National Technical University of Athens
    GPA: 8.77/10.00 (joint B.Sc.-M.Eng. degree, 300 ECTS, Computer Science Major);
    Thesis topic: Exploration and Classification of Breast Cancer Stages using Genomic Data
    Advisor: G. Matsopoulos, G. Paliouras;
    Achieved 80% F1-macro score using ML models and explainability metrics for sc-RNA seq gene expression data. Focused on data-centric AI, handling imbalanced datasets, and dataset curation.

Professional Experience

  1. AI Engineer & Researcher

    Sep. 2024 — Present

    Greek National Centre of Scientific Research 'Demokritos'
    Complex Event Recognition Group - Supervisor: G. Paliouras
    Developing interpretable hybrid ML approaches for cancer progression modeling in collaboration with Barcelona Supercomputing Center. Working on neurosymbolic pipelines for Covid-19 forecasting and constraint satisfaction techniques in autoregressive models.

  2. Full Stack Engineer

    Sep. 2023 — Mar. 2024

    Wealthyhood Fintech Startup
    Shipped new features and fixed bugs daily using React frontend and TypeScript backend. Developed asset pages feature from scratch, providing real-time financial data insights similar to Yahoo Finance.

  3. MLOps Engineer

    Jul. 2022 — Apr. 2023

    Arrikto MLOps Startup
    Integrated Python Library "Dask" for parallel computing in Kubeflow, decreasing computation time for machine learning workflows in containerized environments. Proposed bug fixes for the Dask Kubernetes Operator.

Teaching Experience

  1. Lab Assistant - Operating Systems

    Spring 2023, Spring 2022

    National Technical University of Athens
    Professors: N. Koziris, G. Goumas
    Assisted more than 100 undergraduate students with their course projects and guided them through operating systems concepts.

  2. Lab Assistant - Databases

    Spring 2023

    National Technical University of Athens
    Professors: D. Tsoumakos, M. Koniaris
    Delivered weekly lab sessions covering SQL (Indexes, Constraints, Joins, Triggers, etc.) and assisted over 50 undergraduate students with their course projects.

Volunteering Experience

Leadership & Community

  1. Member of the 1st SNFCC Youth Council

    Jan. 2023 — Dec. 2024

    Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center
    Initiated and managed 20 projects focused on promoting social change through innovative and community-oriented actions. Implemented the SNFCC Slams format and presented on Artificial Intelligence topics.

  2. Curator & Head Organiser - TEDxNTUA

    Sep. 2021 — Sep. 2023

    TEDxNTUA
    Recruited and led a 28-member team, oversaw 60 volunteers, managed €40,000 budget and orchestrated events for 700 participants. Developed websites for TEDxNTUA events using Django, HTML/CSS/JavaScript, and launched the first-ever blog.