Charalampos Tsourakakis
Assistant Professor at Harvard University
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
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Top SchoolCharalampos Tsourakakis is an assistant professor and researcher with a decade of experience at the intersection of academia and industry, currently based in Boston and holding concurrent research roles at Boston University, Harvard, and Google. Trained in electrical and computer engineering and machine learning with a PhD from Carnegie Mellon in Algorithms, Combinatorics and Optimization, he specializes in algorithm design, mathematical modeling, and scalable ML systems implemented in Python and C++. His career spans postdoctoral and research positions across top institutions (Harvard, Brown, Aalto) and technology internships at Microsoft and Yahoo!, reflecting a blend of theoretical depth and practical industry-facing work. He is known for translating rigorous theoretical insights into tools and analyses that address internet-scale problems and networked data. Colleagues value his ability to move between formal proofs and production-minded experimentation, often uncovering non-obvious structural properties in complex datasets. Based in Boston, he combines active research leadership with ongoing collaboration across academia and industry.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
3rd High School, HeraklionDiploma Electrical & Computer Engineering, Diploma Electrical & Computer Engineering at National Technical University of AthensCarnegie Mellon University
English, German, French, GreekProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
tsourolampis/Reading-Group-BU-MIT-Harvard
Jul 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 11 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
tsourolampis/cs365-spring22
Jan 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:43 commits, 44 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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