CV

Work experience

Applied Scientist, Lablets, Amazon Research, Tuebingen, Germany, Causality Group, 01/2021 - Present

Ph.D in Causal inference, Machine learning and Neuroscience, Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, 2020
- Supervisors: Dr. Dominik Janzing, Prof. Bernhard Schölkopf , Prof. Felix Wichmann
- Dissertation: Causal feature selection in neuroscience
- Field: Machine learning & Causal feature selection in Neuroscienc
Dimploma (BSc + MSc equivalent) in Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, 2015
- GPA: 9.30/10 (10 is the highest), Excellent, ranked top 3%
- Supervisors: Prof. Konstantina S. Nikita, MD, PhD N.T.U.A., Post doc. research fellow Konstantinos Michmizos, Harvard Medical School, doctoral Associate at MIT *Master Thesis: Auditory brain activity analysis with EEG source space imaging using the Dynamic Statistical Parametric Maps method and computation of the functional connectivity at the sensor space with Phase Locking Value method

Invitation to contribute a book chapter for Causal Inference on time series
3rd most read paper across Amazon for 2021
5th most read science blog across Amazon for 2021
Selected as “Highlighted Reviewer of ICLR 2022”
Personal invitation by the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach for the ELLIS Workshop on Interactive Learning and Interventional Representations (Germany, 2020)
16th/300 order of entry at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering of National Technical University of Athens
14th/466 order of graduation from the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (top 3%)
Award of 1000 Euros for achieving the highest grade of access in the university (19729/20000 points) in high school, Bank of Eurobank, Athens, Greece

Invited talk at Thematic Quarter on Causality - When Causal Inference meets Statistical Analysis, Institute Henri Poincaré, Paris, France, April 18th, 2023
Invited keynote talk at the Workshop for Causal Dynamics, NeurIps 2023
Invited Talk at Medical Image Processing Lab EPFL, December 2021
Invited Talk at Copenhagen Causality Lab (CoCaLa), April 2021

10/2019 - 03/2020: Applied Research Intern
- Supervisor: Dominik Janzing
- Amazon Research Tübingen, Germany

1 week, 9/2019: Attendance of Machine Learning Frontiers in Precision Medicine
Organized by ETH, FHNW Muttenz, Basel, Switzerland
2 weeks, 8/2018: Attendance of Machine Learning Summer School
Machine Learning Summer School, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
3/2016 - 9/2016: Graduate Junior Researcher
Defitech Chair in Brain - Machine Interface CNBI of Interfaculty Institute of Bioengineering, Ecole Poly- technique Federal de Lausanne, Switzerland (E.P.F.L.) Advisors: Prof. José del R. Millán
10/2015 - 3/2016: Graduate Internship
Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Empirical Inference Department Advisors: Prof. Moritz Grosse-Wentrup, Prof. Bernhard Schölkopf Topic: Brain-controlled rehabilitation robots
6/2015 - 7/2015 Undergraduate Researcher
National Technical University of Athens (N.T.U.A.) and University of Mental Health Research Institute Advisors: Dr. Maria Christopoulou, Prof. Konstantina Nikita Summary: Co-design and conduct of an EEG psychoacoustic experiment aiming to study the impact of cell phones radiation at the auditory function

Greek: Native
English: Proficient (Cambridge Certificate of Proficiency in English, Michigan Certificate of Proficiency in English)
French: Fluent (Delf B2)
German: Basic