Resume
Education
PhD in Computer Science
Orion Lab, National Technical University of Athens & National Observatory of Athens
Thesis: Multimodal Self-Supervised Learning for Earth Observation
MSc in Data Engineering and Analytics
Technical University of Munich
BSc in Computer Science
Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Research Experience
Research Fellow
Φ-Lab, European Space Agency
Research on Earth Observation foundation models.
AI Researcher
Orion Lab, National Technical University of Athens & National Observatory of Athens
Led research on multimodal representation learning for Earth Observation, resulting in publications at ICCV, NeurIPS and AAAI. Contributed to EU projects DeepCube and ThinkingEarth; supervised master's and PhD students.
Research Intern
Mila – Quebec AI Institute
Sensor-agnostic, flexible foundation models for Earth Observation, with David Rolnick.
Visiting Researcher & Beyond Fellow
AI4EO Future Lab, Technical University of Munich
Studied modality domination in multimodal representation learning, with Xiaoxiang Zhu.
Earlier industry roles (Motius, Esri Deutschland, KPIT, Trillr.com, Newte) are in the full CV.
Awards & Scholarships
Best Paper Finalist
Towards a Unified Copernicus Foundation Model for Earth Vision.
UNESCO IRCAI Global Top 100
Triton: Global Flood Monitoring System, rated Excellent.
Best Paper Award
TeleViT: Teleconnection-driven Transformers Improve Subseasonal to Seasonal Wildfire Forecasting.
UNESCO IRCAI Global Top 100
Pluto: a global volcanic unrest early warning system, rated Excellent.
Academic Service
Co-organizer
2nd Workshop on Advances in Representation Learning for Earth Observation.
Reviewer
NeurIPS, CVPR, AAAI, IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing.
See the full list of talks on Talks and papers on Publications.