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Education

Dec. 2013 -  Mar. 2017:     Ph.D in Computer Science specialised in Automatic Signal and Image Processing,                                               Université Côte d’Azur, CNRS, I3S lab, 4G-TECHNOLOGY, France.

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Sep. 2012 - Aug. 2013:      Master of Science in Computational Biology and Biomedicine (English-taught                                                     program), Université de Nice, Sophia-Antipolis, France.

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Sep. 2006 - Jul. 2012:        Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics, University                                               of Thessaly, Greece. (grade 7.3/10. Entered 8th out of 50).

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Sep. 2003 - Jun. 2006:        High-school (grade average: 18.5 out of 20, ”Excellent”).

Research/Working Experience

Sep. 2020 - present:       Visiting Professor

                                            Technical University of Crete (TUC)

                                             School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE)

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Sep. 2018 - present:            Associate Researcher

                                            Supervisor: Prof. Panos Tsakalides

                                            Topic: “Neuro-inspired compression algorithms”

                                            Institute of Computer Science (ICS),

                                            Foundation for Research and Technology - Hellas (FORTH)

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Dec. 2013 -  Mar. 2017:      Research Assistant

                                            Topic: “Retina-inspired Image and Video Coding”

                                            Supervisors: Prof. Lionel Fillatre and Dr. Marc Antonini

                                            Université Côte d'Azur, CNRS, I3S laboratory

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Sep. 2012 - Aug. 2013:       Research Assistant
                                            Topic: “Bio-inspired decoding of natural images”

                                            Supervisors: Prof. Lionel Fillatre and Dr. Marc Antonini

                                            Université de Nice, Sophia-Antipolis, CNRS, I3S laboratory

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Aug. 2012 - Sep. 2012:       Intern

                                            Topic: “Biological Sequence Alignment”
                                            Supervisor: Dr. Pythagoras Karampiperis  

                                            NCSR Demokritos, Greece

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Feb. 2011 - Jul. 2012:         Research Assistant
                                           Topic: “Problem of Fitting Protein Chains to Lattices (FPCL)” Supervisor: Prof.                                                   Euripides  Markou

                                            Department of Computer Science and Biomedical Informatics,

                                            University of Thessaly, Greece.

Fellowships and Awards

25/03/2020:

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12/02/2019:  

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2012 - 2013:

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2013 - 2016:

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‘Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence’, quality label awarded by the European Commission.

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‘Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Seal of Excellence’, quality label awarded by the European Commission.

    

Scholarship sponsored by INRIA, Sophia-Antipolis, France for the Master program in Computational Biology and Biomedicine (CBB).

    

Scholarship sponsored by ANRT and 4G-TECHNOLOGY for a 3-years PhD research.

Research Grants

Oct. 2021 - Sept. 2024

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April 2021- April 2022

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Oct. 2020 - Nov. 2020

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Jun. 2020 - Nov. 2020

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Sept. 2018 -  Sept. 2019:

Principal Investigator of the BrainSIM Project funded by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) within the framework of the second call in support of Postdoctoral Researchers.

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Principal Investigator of the BRIEFING project funded by the Campus France and the Université Côte d'Azur within the framework of the "Make Our Planet Great Again (MOPGA)" call of the French President Emmanuel Macron. 

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High-level research scientific visits supported by the French Insistute of Greece and the State Scholarship Foundation of Greece. 

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Supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) and the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT), under HFRI faculty grant no. 1725, and by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation within the framework of the project ARCHERS.

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Supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) and the General Secretariat for Research and Technology (GSRT), under HFRI faculty grant no. 1725, and by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation within the framework of the project ARCHERS.

Professional Activities

  • Member of Special Session Organisers, 29th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP) 2022, Bordeaux, France.

  • Chair, 25th IEEE International Conference on Image Processing (ICIP), 2018 (Athens).

  •  Member of the ​Reviewer Board ​at Journal of Imaging, MDPI.

Teaching Activities

  • Visiting Professor. Topic; Digital Image Processing, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Technical University of Crete. Academic Years: 2020-2021, 2021- 2022.

  • Teaching Assistant. Topic: Image Compression. Master II in Signal for Health, Telecommunications, Image and Multimedia, Polytech of Nice, Université Côte d’Azur, France. Academic Years: 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017.

  • Teaching Assistant. Topic: Image Processing. Master I Biomedical Engineering, Université Côte  d’Azur, France. Academic Years: 2014-2015, 2015-2016.

  • Teaching Assistant. Topic: Introduction to Matlab. Undergraduate, Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT), France. Academic Years: 2014-2015, 2015-2016.

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