Thanos Papaoikonomou
AI Engineer at Hack The Box
Athens, Attica, Greece
Summary
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Top SchoolThanos Papaoikonomou is an AI Engineer based in Athens with a decade of experience applying advanced data science and machine learning across product and security-focused companies. He holds a Ph.D. in novel social network analysis with a focus on trust/distrust graphs, a specialty that informs his work on NLP and adversarial-aware ML systems. Thanos has moved from research into production roles—leading ML teams at GWI and HUMAN, advancing NLP at Elastic, and now building AI capabilities at Hack The Box. He combines strong mathematical modeling and software engineering skills (Python, Java) with hands-on ML engineering to ship robust, scalable solutions. Known for bridging deep research and pragmatic product delivery, he often surfaces subtle social-graph insights that improve model trust and interpretability. Based in Greece, he brings both academic rigor and practical leadership to complex AI problems.
10 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Novel social network analysis techniques with emphasis on trust/distrust social graphs, 10, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Novel social network analysis techniques with emphasis on trust/distrust social graphs, 10 at National Technical University of Athens
English, French, German
Github Skills (10)
glove8
keras7
interpretation6
random-forest5
tensorflow5
deep-learning5
machine-learning4
python4
ml2
gradient-boosting1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
erwtokritos/collaborativefiltering-rbm
Dec 2015 - Apr 2022
Contributions:11 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 5 months
erwtokritos/JGloVe
Dec 2015 - Mar 2018
Contributions:6 commits, 4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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