Konstantinos Skianis
Assistant Professor at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, School of Engineering, University of Ioannina
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 (22)
predictionio9
graph-algorithms9
python9
graph-visualization9
graph-theory9
complex-networks9
graph-analysis8
scala8
big-data7
computational-linguistics6
phonetics6
machine-learning6
acl5
natural-language-processing4
sequence-to-sequence4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
y3nk0/translation-service-ans
Oct 2024 - May 2026
Contributions:17 pushes in 1 year 7 months
primehostai/primehostai.github.io
Feb 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:32 pushes in 1 month
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