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General Information
Full Name | Konstantinos Kitsios |
Date of Birth | 22 June 1998 |
Languages | German (in progress), English, Greek |
Education
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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
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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
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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.
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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).
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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
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2024-2027 Bodossaki Foundation Scholarship for PhD Students
- Grateful to be supported by the Bodossaki Foundation during my PhD
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2018 Bronze medal
- South Eastern European Mathematical Olympiad for University Students 2018 | Iasi, Romania
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2017 Bronze medal
- South Eastern European Mathematical Olympiad for University Students 2017 | Ohrid, North Macedonia
Other Interests
- Hobbies: Volleyball, Chess, Reading, Bouzouki/Guitar