Despoina Antonakaki
Postdoctoral Researcher at Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης - Technical University of Crete
Heraklion, Region of Crete, Greece
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Top SchoolDespoina Antonakaki is a postdoctoral researcher and experienced software engineer with 14 years of work spanning academia, genomics informatics and applied social network analysis. She holds a PhD and MSc in Computer Science from the University of Crete and has combined production software development (video services, biobank catalogues, semantic databases) with research on OSN phenomena like spam, misinformation, sarcasm correction and election-related sentiment analysis. Her publications in venues such as ICWSM, ASONAM and PLOS reflect a strong empirical focus on large-scale social data and entity identification across diverse events. Despoina has contributed to EU projects (EUNITY, CONCORDIA, ECCO) and brings practical experience from the Genomics Coordination Center in Groningen, where she worked on biobanking ontologies and text mining for national catalogues. Colleagues value her ability to bridge rigorous machine learning/NLP research with production-grade software engineering and privacy-aware design. Based in Heraklion, Greece, she blends long-term institutional research roles with hands-on systems delivery.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer science, Master of Science, Computer science at University of Crete
Spanish, Greek, English
Github Skills (9)
genetics10
freemarker10
java9
bioinformatics9
javascript8
data-management7
computation4
python3
infrastructure1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
antonak/elections_study
Jun 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:1 release, 7 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
antonak/TelegramCrawler
Sep 2024 - Jan 2025
Contributions:4 pushes in 3 months
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