Christos Tzagkarakis

Short Bio: Christos Tzagkarakis is a research scientist with a dual academic and industrial background in signal processing, machine learning and AI-driven applications. He received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees from the Computer Science Department at the University of Crete, Greece, in 2014 and 2007 respectively, graduating first in his class for his M.Sc., and holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science and a B.Sc. in Mathematics from the same institution. From 2015 to 2017, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Delft University of Technology, collaborating with Google Inc. on acoustic source localization. He has been a Research Associate at FORTH-ICS, contributing to European projects including SEMIoTICS, CyberSANE, AI4HEALTHSEC, and MARVEL. In parallel with his research activities, he has held industrial positions developing AI and machine learning solutions for quantitative finance, cybersecurity risk assessment in healthcare IT infrastructures, and network traffic analysis. His research interests span machine learning, signal processing, sparse representations, time series analysis, and AI applications in IoT, cybersecurity, and quantitative finance. He has co-authored over 25 publications, holds a US patent with Google, and has delivered invited talks at Google Inc. and IBM Research.