Ioannis Filippidis
Postdoctoral Researcher at Inria
Villers-lès-Nancy, Grand Est, France
Summary
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Top SchoolIoannis Filippidis is a postdoctoral researcher and software-savvy control systems expert with 14 years of experience bridging academic research and practical tooling. Trained as a mechanical engineer (NTUA) and PhD holder in Control and Dynamical Systems from Caltech, he has held research and postdoc positions at Caltech and Inria and interned twice at NASA/JPL, reflecting a strong trajectory in dynamical systems and applied engineering. He contributes to open-source Python tooling—improving the smop Matlab-to-Python compiler and maintaining pydot—demonstrating attention to code quality, cross-platform edge cases, and modern parsing libraries. Comfortable in both rigorous research and backend development, he brings a rare combination of formal control theory expertise and hands-on compiler/ tooling improvements that make academic algorithms more reproducible and portable. Based in Villers-lès-Nancy, France, he pairs deep theoretical insight with practical software craftsmanship to move algorithms from prototype to reliable code.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Control and Dynamical Systems, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Control and Dynamical Systems at California Institute of TechnologyDiploma, Mechanical Engineering, Diploma, Mechanical Engineering at National Technical University of Athens
German, English, Greek
Github Skills (12)
parser10
lex10
lexer10
python10
graphviz10
setuptools9
py9
code-generation9
compiler-design9
pyparsing9
regular-expression8
matlab7
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
pydot/pydot
May 2016 - Apr 2018
Python interface to Graphviz's Dot language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:136 commits, 16 PRs, 77 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Ioannis primarily contributed to the maintenance and improvement of the `pydot` library. Their work involved bumping the version, fixing bugs, updating the setup and import statements and removing unused attributes. They made the project more compatible with modern `pyparsing` versions and improved the code style.
graph-analysisdot-languagepythondotpython-interface
victorlei/smop
Nov 2013 - Nov 2013
Small Matlab to Python compiler
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:7 commits in 1 day
Contributions summary:Ioannis primarily focused on enhancing the functionality of the Matlab to Python compiler. They added support for comments by modifying the lexer, parser, and backend code to handle single-line comments, and implemented an option to strip comments during compilation. Additionally, the user improved code formatting by adding whitespace between operators and commas, aiming for PEP8 compliance in the generated Python code, and also addressed Windows-specific comment handling.
pythonmatlabcompilersympypython-compiler
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