Christina Boididou
Principal Data Scientist
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolChristina Boididou is a Principal Data Scientist at BBC Datalab with 12 years’ experience applying machine learning and data engineering to real-world media problems. She has progressed through multiple data science roles at the BBC, focusing on recommender systems and NLP, and brings prior research experience in social media content verification and computer vision. Her background in Electrical and Computer Engineering underpins a pragmatic approach to building production-ready ML solutions using Python, TensorFlow, and scalable databases. Christina combines research rigor with product-driven delivery, often translating academic techniques into practical tools for editorial and audience teams. Based in Glasgow, she’s equally comfortable prototyping novel models and shepherding them into production pipelines.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
English, Spanish, French, Turkish
Stackoverflow
1,120reputation
104kreached
19answers
6questions
elasticsearch
top-5%
Github Skills (54)
elasticsearch9
dlib9
computer-vision8
weakly-supervised-learning8
python8
machine-learning7
deep-learning7
nlp6
nest6
dictionary6
beautifulsoup6
indexing6
append6
dataframe6
classify6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
MKLab-ITI/image-verification-corpus
Apr 2014 - Nov 2015
Contributions:11 commits, 36 pushes in 1 year 7 months
socialsensor/computational-verification
Jan 2014 - Nov 2014
A framework for "learning" how to classify social content as truthful/reliable or not.
Contributions:11 commits in 10 months
classifypythonmachine-learningreliable
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