Daniel Karavolos
ML Team Lead at Beyond Sports
Castricum, North Holland, Netherlands
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Karavolos is an ML Team Lead with a decade of experience turning sports and motion data into actionable, human-centered insights. Based in Castricum, Netherlands, he has grown from a solo researcher to leading a small team of data scientists and ML engineers at Beyond Sports, coordinating projects from camera calibration to limb-tracking validation. His work spans computer vision, deep learning for texture and portrait enhancement, and motion-data cleaning and augmentation, with hands-on supervision of multiple Bachelor and Master research projects. Daniel combines academic rigor—anchored by an MSc from the University of Amsterdam and PhD work at the University of Malta—with product-focused execution, shipping research into practical tools for sports analytics. He favors pragmatic, data-driven solutions that improve athlete and viewer experiences, and is comfortable moving between research, implementation, and mentoring roles. An understated strength is his ability to translate complex model outputs into intuitive human experiences that drive adoption beyond the lab.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Bachelor of Science (BSc) at Rijksuniversiteit GroningenMSc, MSc at University of AmsterdamDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD at University of Malta
English, Dutch
Github Skills (34)
pytorch10
python10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
data-science9
tensorflow9
neural-network9
jax8
deep-neural-networks8
ml8
classifiers6
markov6
hidden6
stylegan6
encoder6
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
DKaravolos/AgentBasedLevelGenerator
Nov 2017 - Jan 2020
Contributions:26 commits, 23 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
DKaravolos/PoseNetExample
Jan 2020 - Sep 2021
Runs the (pretrained) TFLite PoseNet and applies inference on a single custom image.
Contributions:12 PRs, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
pytorchdeep-learningposenetinferencecomputer-vision
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