Machine Learning Scientist - DMI

March 2024 - Present

• Design and develop machine learning models for real-time weather forecasting and nowcasting using high-resolution radar and satellite data.
• Lead the development of AI-driven solutions to enhance meteorological predictions, focusing on sustainability and renewable energy applications.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate machine learning techniques into operational workflows.
• Optimize machine learning algorithms for scalability on supercomputing systems like LUMI, leveraging multi-GPU and distributed computing architectures.
• Contribute to international research projects and proposals, including Destination Earth.

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Senior Software Engineer - SciGen Technologies

January 2020 - February 2024

• Participated in architecture, design and implementation of back-end features using Java, Spring Framework and MySQL and implementation of front-end features using ReactJs, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Promoted experience with Kubernetes, Docker and Amazon Web Services.
• Leader for Horizon 2020 project ThrombUS+
• Coordinated with other engineers to evaluate and improve software and hardware interfaces and review project specifications and designed technology solutions that met or exceeded performance expectations.
• Integrated third-party tools and components into applications and develop robust, scalable, modular and API- centric infrastructures.
• Deployment of commercial products worldwide.

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Research Associate - Democritus University of Thrace

July 2023 - November 2023

Project Title: «Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning Application for diagnosis of coMmunication disordErs iN Child development (Acronym: FLAMENCO)», «HORIZON- 2020»

• Federated Learning application to an existing software application suite, which is used to diagnose communication skills development in children, detecting potential deficiencies timely and accurately.
• Algorithms usage to ensure users' privacy and prediction accuracy (Fully Homomorphic Encryption, client selection techniques, state-of-the-art aggregators).
• Simulation of a Federated Learning process using real-world data from IoT edge devices and incorporating the proposed extensions.

PhD Teaching Assistant - Democritus University of Thrace

July 2020 - September 2023

• Reasearch about Drug - Target Interaction prediction with Deep-Embedding Learning of graphs and sequences using BERT pretrained method and protein SMILES.
• Mentor and tutor individual students.
• Teach undergraduate course "Algorithms and Complexity" (Python).
• Teach undergraduate course "Data Structures" (Java).

Researcher - Athena Research and Innovation Center

January 2019 - September 2021

Project Title: PROMOTE Project under the call RESEARCH – CREATE – INNOVATE (project code: Τ1EDK-02474)

• Created a mobile application that utilizes information about user based on their social media profile and recommend places to visit using Machine Learning Algorithms
• Wrote research papers, reports, reviews, and summaries regarding Social Network Analysis with emphasis on information about tourist behavior and privacy protection.
• Performed research into study topics to increase knowledge and to provide valuable contributions and gathered and organized information for research purposes.
• Collaborated with leadership team to identify relevant questions and determine best methods of collection.