Research on recommendation in the financial domain.

		Participation on the ICURe Explore programme (October 2023 cohort). Team: FAR-AI Role: Entrepreneurial Lead Funder: InnovateUK Period: October 2023 to January 2024 Market analysis and hypothesis testing on commercialization of financial asset recommendation technologies.
		Project title: FAR-AI: Deployment of AI-based Financial Asset Recommendation System Role: Primary investigator Funder: EPSRC (Impact Acceleration Account project) Period: August 2023 to October 2023 Development of an investment platform for the UK market.
		Project title: PPC-FI: Personalized Portfolio Construction for Financial Investments Role: Primary investigator Funder: EPSRC (Impact Acceleration Account project) Period: April 2023 to July 2023 Research on portfolio management and optimization functionalities. Integration on an investment recommendation platform for financial advisors, in collaboration with the National Bank of Greece
		Project title: Infinitech Role: Post-doctoral researcher Funder: European Comission (Horizon 2020) Period: November 2021 to March 2023 Research on recommendations in the financial domain. Development of an investment recommendation platform for financial advisors, in collaboration with the National Bank of Greece

Research on people recommendation in social networks, social network analysis (link prediction, structural metrics, information diffusion), recommendation objectives beyond accuracy and multi-armed bandits for recommendation.

Research on information retrieval models for contact recommendation in social networks.

Spanish Language Route project

Development of the project webpage, using Joomla, MySQL and PHP, mainly web services and payment platforms and development of computer game functionalities, using Unity3D and C#.

PhD thesis: Contact recommendation in social networks: algorithmic models, diversity and network evolution
Supervisor: Pablo Castells
Score: Outstanding

Specialization: Computational Intelligence
GPA: 9.32 / 10
4 mentions of honor: “Information Retrieval”, “Machine Learning: Theory and Applications”, “Numerical and data intensive computing” and “Temporal Information Processing”.
MSc thesis: Contact recommendation: Effects on the evolution of social networks.

GPA: 9.52 / 10
4 mentions of honor: “Advanced topics in Networking and Internet”, “Embedded, distributed and ubiquitous systems”, “Graphics, Multimedia and Virtual Environments”, “Interactive Systems Development”.

GPA: 9.23 / 10 (top 3% of my year)
28 mentions of honor: including “Artificial Intelligence”, “Neurocomputing”, “Information Search and Mining” and “Fundamentals of Machine Learning”.
BSc thesis: Metasearch engine with session management and interleaving A/B testing.