Research Assistant

Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 10/2014 – 09/2020,  Grade: 7.24/10
• Master’s Degree in Digital Media – Computational Intelligence, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 10/2020 – 04/2022  Grade: 8.54/10
• Ph.D. in Machine Learning and Genome Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 01/2023 – Present (Thessaloniki, Greece) Thesis: Computational genomics and data engineering in big biomolecular data collections.

Experience:

• Research Associate –  data fusion and analysis in cancer epidemiology (MELIORA project)  – Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece, 01/2024 – Present
• Researcher – Ph.D. Candidate, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 01/2023 – Present 
• Mathematics Teacher, Thessaloniki, Greece, 09/2020 – 12/2023
• Research Associate – Machine Learning Engineer specializing in COVID-19 Data, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece, 04/2023 – 07/2023
• Research Associate -Data Engineer/Visualization, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece, 09/2022 – 10/2022

Projects:

• PhD Project.Computational genomics in long RNA sequences from cancer types: Alignment and mapping of long RNA-Seq. Applying gene fusion detection algorithms. Identification and visualization of new gene fusions. Thessaloniki, Greece, 01/2023 – Present 
• Master Thesis: Severity Prediction Model of COVID-19 Patients Using Machine Learning: Statistical Analysis and Visualization. Predicting the Severity Risk, Thessaloniki, Greece, 10/2021 – 04/2022 

Skills and interests: Statistics, Biomedical Data Analysis, Bioinformatics, Machine learning, Deep Learning, Time Series, Computer Vision, Python, R, SQL, LaTeX, Linux

Languages: Greek: Native,  English: Proficiency / C2