Professional Journey
From academic research to industry innovation, my career spans cutting-edge work in Conversational AI, Neural Networks, Robotics, and Machine Learning systems deployed at scale.
๐Ÿ’ผ Industry Experience

Staff Machine Learning Scientist - R&D

Ada Support LTD | Feb 2024 - Present | ๐Ÿ“ Toronto, Canada [Remote]

Leading Generative AI efforts through Applied Research. Work resulted in 2 patents related to Conversational AI technologies.

Key Achievements:

  • ๐Ÿค– Agent-based Conversation Modelling
  • ๐Ÿงช Testing Methodologies & Performance Evaluation
  • ๐Ÿ’ก AI Explainability methods
  • ๐Ÿ“š Design and Development of novel Knowledge Management methods

Technologies: LLMs โ€ข NLP โ€ข Generative AI โ€ข Python โ€ข PyTorch

Senior Machine Learning Scientist - R&D

Ada Support LTD | Aug 2021 - Feb 2024 | ๐Ÿ“ Toronto, Canada [Remote]

Led Generative AI efforts through applied research. Work resulted in 2 patents related to Conversational AI technologies.

Key Achievements:

  • โœจ Automated Training Questions creation
  • ๐Ÿค– Automated Chatbot Creation
  • ๐Ÿ”„ Ada’s Hybrid Chatbot solution
  • ๐Ÿš€ Ada’s Generative Chatbot solution
  • ๐ŸŽฏ Ada’s Personalized Generative Chatbot solution
  • ๐Ÿ”ง Fine-tuning LLMs

Technologies: LLMs โ€ข NLP โ€ข Generative AI โ€ข Python โ€ข PyTorch

Senior Machine Learning Specialist - R&D

Omilia LTD | Feb 2020 - Aug 2021 | ๐Ÿ“ Athens, Greece [Remote]

Designing and implementing novel Machine Learning models applied to Voice Biometrics, Automated Speech Recognition, and Natural Language Processing.

Key Focus:

  • ๐ŸŽค Voice Biometrics
  • ๐Ÿง  Deep Neural Networks
  • ๐Ÿ“Š Probabilistic Neural Models
  • ๐Ÿ’ฌ Natural Language Processing
  • ๐Ÿ‘ฅ Diarization

Technologies: Python โ€ข C++ โ€ข PyTorch โ€ข TensorFlow โ€ข ASR

Data Scientist

Curation Zone LTD | Apr 2019 - Feb 2020 | ๐Ÿ“ London, UK [Remote]

Working on AI technologies to identify the World’s best filmmakers using advanced NLP and deep learning techniques.

Focus Areas:

  • ๐ŸŽฌ Deep Neural Networks for content analysis
  • ๐Ÿ“ Natural Language Processing
  • โญ Scoring and Data Management systems

Technologies: Python โ€ข BERT โ€ข ELMO โ€ข LSTMs โ€ข TensorFlow โ€ข MongoDB

Lead AI Developer

Stellanovus LTD | Oct 2018 - Apr 2019 | ๐Ÿ“ Republic of Ireland [Remote]

Working on a digital marketing platform using Deep Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing.

Technologies: Python โ€ข LSTMs โ€ข TensorFlow โ€ข RESTful API

AI & Machine Learning Scientist

i-DAT | Sep 2017 - Sep 2018 | ๐Ÿ“ United Kingdom [Remote]

Working on a chatbot engine with text comprehension using Neural Networks and Natural Language Processing.

Technologies: Python โ€ข LSTMs โ€ข Keras โ€ข DialogFlow โ€ข Rasa

Web App Developer

VisualPulp | Nov 2013 - Feb 2014 | ๐Ÿ“ Greece

Implemented front and back end of a scratch game engine for an online casino.

Responsibilities:

  • ๐ŸŽฎ Game logic implementation
  • โš™๏ธ Game engine development
  • ๐ŸŽจ Interface and graphical environment
  • ๐Ÿ”’ Security aspects of information exchange

Technologies: JavaScript โ€ข Angular โ€ข MongoDB โ€ข Bootstrap

๐ŸŽ“ Academic & Research Experience

Research Scientist

University of Naples, Federico II | Jun 2017 - Sep 2017 | ๐Ÿ“ Italy

Researcher Position under the supervision of Prof. Davide Marocco.

Research Project:

  • ๐ŸŽต Generative Adversarial Architecture based on Echo State Networks
  • ๐ŸŽผ Applications to music generation

Technologies: Python โ€ข LSTMs โ€ข Echo State Networks โ€ข Theano

Research Assistant & Laboratory Assistant

Plymouth University | 2015 - 2017 | ๐Ÿ“ United Kingdom

Research Projects:

  • ๐Ÿ“ฑ Sentiment Analysis in Tweets and Natural Language Processing
  • ๐Ÿฅ Explanation of Functional Disorders

Teaching:

  • ๐ŸŽ“ MSc level: Robotics and Control
  • ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป BSc level: Cross-platform application development in C++
  • โšก BSc level: Parallel and Distributed Programming

Technologies: CUDA โ€ข C/C++ โ€ข Python โ€ข TensorFlow โ€ข RNNs โ€ข Industrial Robotics

๐Ÿ“Š Career Summary
10+ Years in AI/ML | 9 Companies | 2 Patents | 7+ Publications