Summary
Katerina Batziakoudi is a research engineer with eight years of experience at the intersection of human-centered design and data-driven systems, currently pursuing an industrial PhD between Berger-Levrault and Inria in Paris. She specializes in visualization of public financial data, crafting interactive visualizations and designing crowdsourcing experiments to evaluate them. With a strong academic foundation in HCI (MSc from KTH and Université Paris-Saclay) and a top-5% BSc in Management Science and Technology, she blends rigorous research methods with practical engineering. Colleagues describe her work as where creativity meets logic—turning complex civic datasets into usable insights for decision-makers. Notably, her background spans smart-city platforms and cross-institutional collaboration, giving her a rare mix of product-minded research and deployment experience.
8 years of coding experience
Bachelor's degree, Management Science and Technology, 8.82/10 (Top 5%), Bachelor's degree, Management Science and Technology, 8.82/10 (Top 5%) at Athens University of Economics and Business
Summer School, Digital Platforms for Smart Cities, Summer School, Digital Platforms for Smart Cities at Aalto University
Master of Science - MS, Human Computer Interaction, Master of Science - MS, Human Computer Interaction at KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Université Paris-Saclay
English, French, Greek