Flora Sakketou
Leader Of Data Science And Machine Learning Community Of Practice
Marburg, Hesse, Germany
Summary
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Top SchoolFlora Sakketou is a leader in applied NLP and ML with eight years of experience bridging academic research and enterprise delivery, currently heading the Data Science and Machine Learning Community of Practice at Lufthansa Group Digital Hangar. She specializes in deep learning for opinion modeling and fake news detection, with hands-on expertise in transformer architectures, graph neural networks, Azure ML, Azure OpenAI and prompt engineering. Her background as a postdoctoral researcher and PhD on optimization for NLP gives her a strong foundation in both theory and practical model engineering, including deployment, evaluation and temporal/social-data analysis. At Lufthansa she drives digital strategy, governance and secure development practices while enabling product teams to ship data-driven features rapidly in SAFe and Scrum contexts. She combines academic publication and teaching experience with pragmatic security stewardship and risk-aware data governance—an uncommon mix that helps scale ML responsibly in regulated environments. Based in Marburg, Germany, she is known for turning cutting-edge research into production-ready solutions and open-source contributions.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Financial and Management Engineering, 8.2/10, Master of Engineering - MEng, Financial and Management Engineering, 8.2/10 at University of the Aegean
Greek, English, German
Github Skills (8)
autoencoder4
clustering3
recurrent3
imports1
pytorch1
citations1
machine-learning1
time-series1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
flo3003/lexiconFALCON
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
Contributions:141 commits, 140 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
caisa-lab/SPINOS-dataset
Jan 2022 - Jun 2022
Contributions:70 commits, 63 pushes in 5 months
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