Konstantinos Skianis
Assistant Professor at BLUAI
Athens, Attica, Greece
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Top SchoolKonstantinos Skianis is an Assistant Professor and founder with 11 years of experience at the intersection of Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, and Data Science, currently splitting time between academia (University of Ioannina) and industry R&D. He holds a PhD from École Polytechnique and a master's from ENS Paris-Saclay, and has built research and production systems ranging from web-crawling and text mining to visualization and algorithmic analytics. As founder of BLUAI and an R&D lead at PrimeHost, he combines entrepreneurial drive with practical system-building skills, bringing research prototypes into usable tools. His background includes postdoctoral research and collaborations across Greek and French institutions, giving him a strong track record in both theoretical ML and applied analytics for domains like port management and shipping. Known for a pragmatic modeling philosophy—“all models are wrong, but some are useful”—he emphasizes useful, well-visualized insights over pure novelty.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Athens University of Economics and BusinessMaster's degree, Math, computer vision, machine learning (MVA), Master's degree, Math, computer vision, machine learning (MVA) at École normale supérieure Paris-SaclayDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at École Polytechnique
English, German, French, Greek
Github Skills (28)
graph-algorithms10
network-analysis9
graph-analysis9
python9
graph-visualization9
graph-theory9
complex-networks9
scala8
predictionio8
sequence6
big-data6
machine-learning6
facebook5
data-science5
nlp4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
primehostai/primehostai.github.io
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:32 pushes in 1 month
y3nk0/OMP-for-Text-Classification
Aug 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch, 1 comment in 8 months
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