Vassilis Kalofolias
Data Science Manager
Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
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Top SchoolVassilis Kalofolias is a Data Science Manager based in Zurich with 11 years of experience blending research-grade machine learning and hands-on product delivery across startups and industry. He co-founded AIRICA and Largo, spearheading sensor-driven analytics, cloud-native architectures and the CO2-based room occupancy model that became the company's first USP, and now leads data science at Logitech. His background includes a PhD from EPFL with publications at NeurIPS/ICLR and a single-author influential paper on graph learning, reflecting deep probabilistic and optimization expertise. Comfortable across time series, vision, audio and multi-tenant Kubernetes deployments, he moves projects from prototyping to production while championing data quality end-to-end. Colleagues describe him as a problem solver who pairs scientific rigor with product-minded pragmatism, often uncovering value in sensor data where others see noise.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
5-year Diploma, Computer engineering and informatics, Ranked 1st out of 91 students (GPA 9.01 out of 10), 5-year Diploma, Computer engineering and informatics, Ranked 1st out of 91 students (GPA 9.01 out of 10) at Panepistimion Patron / University of PatrasDoctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Machine Learning at EPFL (École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne)
English, Greek, German, French, Spanish
Github Skills (6)
convex9
toolbox9
matlab9
convex-optimization8
optimization8
splitting6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (1)
epfl-lts2/unlocbox
Nov 2014 - Oct 2016
A Matlab convex optimization toolbox using proximal splitting methods
Contributions:35 commits in 1 year 11 months
convex-optimizationmatlabtoolboxoptimizationsplitting
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