- Paper Published: “NeCo: Improving DINOv2’s spatial representations in 19 GPU hours with Patch Neighbor Consistency,” accepted to ICLR 2025
- Award: “Best Ready for Production Solution” by Summer of AI organization in 2023
- Project: Fooderloo, won multiple awards including 1st place in the “Go Green, Go Digital, Go Start-up!” competition
Research Experience
- Intern at Amazon, improving efficiency across systems
- Intern at South Pole, enhancing CO₂ product-category matching algorithms
- Co-developed “Fooderloo,” a project addressing food waste in Cyprus
Education
- PhD Student, University of Technology Nuremberg (UTN), Advisor: Dr. Yuki M. Asano
- Master's Degree, University of Amsterdam, Advisors: Prof. Yuki M. Asano, Dr. Gertjan Burghouts, Prof. Francesco Locatello
- Bachelor's Degree, University of Cyprus, Major: Computer Science, Focus: Artificial Intelligence
Background
Research Interests: Leveraging Self-Supervised Learning and synthetic data to enhance the capabilities of Vision Models. Specialization: Artificial Intelligence, particularly Computer Vision.
Miscellany
Hobbies: Music, cycling, and other sports, exploring new ideas and challenges, driven by curiosity and a passion to make a meaningful impact in AI