CV
Education
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2025 - Present Ph.D. in Machine Learning and Signal Processing
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA - Research interests in the intersection of Machine Learning, Signal Processing and Optimization.
- Supervised by Prof. Georgios Giannakis.
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2020-2025 M.Eng in Electrical and Electronics Engineering
Imperial College London, London, UK - Thesis "Wasserstein Distributionally Robust Portfolio Optimisation with Graph Sparsification".
- Supervised by Prof. Imad Jaimoukha
- 4.0 GPA
Experience
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2024 Research Summer Intern
AIDA Finance Lab - Worked on Low-rank adaptation (LoRA) finetuning of LLMs for AI financial news sentiment analysis under the supervision of Prof. Danilo Mandic.
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2023 Research Summer Intern
UK National Heart and Lung Institute - Developed medical image segmentation AI algorithms under the supervision of Dr. Guang Yang.
Teaching
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2024 Deep Learning
Imperial College London, London, UK - Delivered weekly supplementary classes to cohorts of 400+ students.
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2023 Machine Learning
Imperial College London, London, UK - Presented weekly course material and hosted Q&A sessions boosting engagement.
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2023 Principles of Classical and Modern Radar Systems
Imperial College London, London, UK - Graded assignments, and provided detailed personalized written feedback for 55 students.
- Class average increased by 7% comapred to previous year.
Honors and Awards
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2025 - University of Minnesota Gordon Sprague Fellowship for Deserving Students.
- University of Minnesota Kaveh Fellowship for Student Excellence.
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2024 - Imperial College London UROP Bursary Prize.
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2024 - Received Associateship Rank at City and Guilds of London Institute.
Languages
- Greek (Native)
- English (Fluent)
- French (Advanced, DELF B2)
Music & Outdoors Activities
- Formal Piano Study at Athens Conservatory.
- Music Technology and Production at Berklee College of Music and Philippos Nakas Conservatory.
- Active in Swimming and Wakesurfing at Vouliagmeni Nautical Club.
- Co-organized the 1st Patmos Island "ChoRun" mini-marathon, 500 participants.