Sofia Yfantidou
Data Scientist
Thessaloniki, Macedonia and Thrace, Greece
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Top SchoolSofia Yfantidou is a data scientist and Marie Skłodowska-Curie alumna with 10 years of experience bridging human-centered machine learning and large-scale data engineering for health and wearable sensing. She holds a PhD in Human-centered Machine Learning for Mobile and Wearable Data and combines research rigor with hands-on production work—building biosignal pipelines, deep learning models, and cloud AI infrastructure (including RAG chatbots on Google Cloud). Her background spans Big Data Management across top European universities and industry projects with Siemens and Nokia Bell Labs, where she specialized in fairness-aware, self-supervised methods for personal sensing. Sofia has led GDPR-compliant multimodal data collections across multiple countries, translated research into clinical-grade respiratory analytics, and successfully managed grant and consortium activities to move prototypes toward commercial impact. She is passionate about ethical ML, women in STEM, and often communicates research to broader audiences through webinars and explainer media.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Big Data Management and Analytics (Semester I), Master's degree Big Data Management and Analytics (Semester I) at Université libre de BruxellesMaster's degree Big Data Management and Analytics (Semester III), Master's degree Big Data Management and Analytics (Semester III) at Technische Universität BerlinUPC Universitat Politècnica de CatalunyaDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Behavioral Patterns for Sustained Engagement, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Behavioral Patterns for Sustained Engagement at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)Erasmus+ Exchange Student Computing Science, Erasmus+ Exchange Student Computing Science at University of Groningen
Greek, English, Italian, Spanish
Stackoverflow
366reputation
40kreached
9answers
29questions
Github Skills (59)
wavelet-transform8
benchmark7
science7
python7
rdd6
streamlit6
deep-learning6
anaconda6
remote-server6
binary-search-tree6
machine-learning6
bash6
apache-spark6
ajax6
bootstrap6
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
syfantid/Greek-CS-Student-Opportunities
Oct 2017 - Aug 2019
Opportunities for Greek Computer Science students for fully or semi funded internships, conferences, Master and PhD programmes, hackathons and scholarships.
Contributions:23 commits, 6 PRs, 25 pushes in 1 year 9 months
scienceopportunitiessemimasterprogrammes
OSWINDS/FixTheFixing-SAFEYOU
Mar 2016 - Jul 2017
Contributions:78 commits, 17 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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