Ioannis Kalfas
Remote Sensing Scientist AI Engineer at VITO
Leuven, Flemish Brabant, Belgium
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Top SchoolIoannis Kalfas is a multidisciplinary AI engineer and remote sensing scientist with 12 years of experience applying deep learning to Earth observation, agrifood, and bio‑sensing problems. He holds a PhD from KU Leuven and has moved research ideas into production—productizing VQ‑VAE‑2/CORSA for satellite image compression, building lightweight cloud‑masking CNNs that ranked top in CMIX‑2, and training global land‑cover models at scale. Comfortable across research and engineering, he designs PyTorch/MLOps pipelines for SLURM/HPC and maintains APIs and web tools for real‑world deployments, including FastAPI/Streamlit systems for insect monitoring. His background in neurophysiology and spiking neural networks informs a strong foundation in biologically inspired modelling and time‑series signal processing. Based in Leuven, he combines academic rigor with hands‑on production experience to bridge cutting‑edge research and scalable ML solutions.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioscience Engineering. Deep learning , Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Bioscience Engineering. Deep learning at KU LeuvenMaster of Science (MS) Machine Learning, Master of Science (MS) Machine Learning at KTH Royal Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (BS) Informatics, Bachelor of Science (BS) Informatics at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Greek, Swedish, Dutch, English
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Github Skills (110)
large-image10
deep-dream10
annotations10
matconvnet10
image-to-text10
deep-learning10
speech10
motion-detection10
tflite10
labelimg10
streamlit10
satellite10
yolov510
grad-cam10
onnx10
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
kalfasyan/audiovisual
Jun 2019 - Oct 2021
Audio and video processing in raspberry pi (draft)
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
raspberry-piraspberryaudiovideo-processingvideo
kalfasyan/DA224x_Dynamics-of-Cortical-networks-with-layers-columns
Mar 2015 - Oct 2015
Contributions:47 commits, 41 pushes in 6 months
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