Fotios Fitsilis
Professor at Hellenic Parliament
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolFotios Fitsilis is a multidisciplinary professor and parliamentary technologist with over eight years of professional experience bridging engineering, law and public policy. He leads digital governance and parliamentary development initiatives at the Hellenic Parliament while directing AI and parliamentary governance research and teaching at Universidad Austral. Founder and team lead of the Hellenic OCR Team, he combines hands-on technical expertise in open technologies and ICT with deep practical experience in legislative drafting, post-legislative scrutiny and EU integration projects. His background spans semiconductor research and industrial policy to innovative labs for legislative XML and open-data-driven transparency, reflecting a rare blend of hard engineering and institutional reform skills. Based in Athens, he is known for translating complex technical concepts into actionable parliamentary tools that strengthen democratic oversight and sustainability monitoring.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Dipl.-Wirt. Ing Financial Engineering, Dipl.-Wirt. Ing Financial Engineering at FernUniversität in HagenPhD Electrical Engineering, PhD Electrical Engineering at RWTH Aachen UniversityI.I.LL.M International & European Public Law, I.I.LL.M International & European Public Law at Academy of European Public Law
English, German, Russian, Serbian, Greek
Github Skills (8)
quantitative2
text-mining1
open-source1
nlp1
topic-modeling1
natural-language-processing1
collaboration1
text-analysis1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
hocrt/Rscripts
Jul 2020 - Jun 2021
Processing of Parliamentary control data
Contributions:2 PRs, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
pythonparliamentary
fitsilisf/PYTHONscripts
Mar 2018 - Feb 2020
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 11 months
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