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General Information

Full Name Konstantinos Kitsios
Date of Birth 22 June 1998
Languages German (in progress), English, Greek

Education

  • Sept. 2023-now
    PhD student
    University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
    • PhD student supervised by professor Alberto Bacchelli and the ZEST group. My research interests lie in the interesectionof Software Engineering and Machine Learning.
    • Teaching
      • Software Construction [MSc. + BSc. - Fall 2024]
      • Effective Software Testing [MSc. - Spring 2024]
      • Empirical Software Engineering [Seminar - BSc - Spring 2024]
      • Software Construction [MSc. + BSc - Fall 2023]
    • Thesis supervision
      • Effective Mutations for Greybox Fuzzing using Machine Learning (In progress) - Lucas Steffen Krauter - MSc
      • An Empirical Study of the Mutation Strategy of AFLNet (In progress) - Anton Crazzolara - MSc
      • Investigating Toxicity in Open Source Software - Szymon Kaczmarski - MSc
      • Predicting Pull Request Outcome Using Deep Learning - Eric Vincent Leger - BSc
  • 2016-2021
    5-year integrated M.Sc./M.Eng.
    Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering
    • GPA: 9.00/10.00
    • Master thesis: Text Classification Using Unsupervised Learning Techniques

Experience

  • 2022-2023
    Software Engineer
    Tesla
    • Design and implementation of an in-house distributed computing system to handle large amounts of motor simulation data using MATLAB and Microsoft SQL Server.
  • 2021-2022
    Associate Software Engineer
    Tesla
  • 2020-2021
    Software Engineering Intern
    Tesla
  • 2019-2019
    NLP Intern
    Visualeyes
    • Conducted research on algorithms for steering Natural Language Generation into specific semantic spaces using Pytorch as a Deep Learning framework and HugginFace for manipulating Transformer models (GPT-2 back then).
  • 2018-2019
    Software developer intern
    Aristole University IT Center
    • Developed code for the the university's android application, used by tens of thousands of students.

Honors and Awards

  • 2024-2027
    Bodossaki Foundation Scholarship for PhD Students
    • Grateful to be supported by the Bodossaki Foundation during my PhD
  • 2018
    Bronze medal
    • South Eastern European Mathematical Olympiad for University Students 2018 | Iasi, Romania
  • 2017
    Bronze medal
    • South Eastern European Mathematical Olympiad for University Students 2017 | Ohrid, North Macedonia

Other Interests

  • Hobbies: Volleyball, Chess, Reading, Bouzouki/Guitar