Alexandros Xafopoulos Email & Phone Number

England, United Kingdom

London, United Kingdom

- 40 5-star, *****, reviews
- Several tutees achieving 2:1 or higher
- Planning & implementing tuition sessions
- Cooperating with tutees on projects
- Setting assignments & providing feedback & marking
- Tutees: Undergraduates, postgraduates, & professionals
- Occasional tutees: Secondary students
- Subject: Python
- Occasional subjects: Java, C, C++, Web development, SQL, Computing
- Past subjects: SPSS and Mathematics
- Mode: Online
- Past mode: Face-to-face.

London, United Kingdom

- Planning & implementing tuition sessions
- Cooperating with the tutees on projects
- Setting assignments & providing feedback & marking
- Tutees: Undergraduates, postgraduates, & professionals
- Occasional tutees: Secondary students
- Subject: Python
- Occasional subjects: Java, C, C++, Web development, SQL, & Computing
- Past subjects: SPSS & Mathematics
- Mode: Online
- Past mode: Face-to-face
- 100+ tutees, 600+ hours
- Spring 2018 - now: In the top 7 tutors in Python & Software Development.
Head of Tutors: Sam Floy.

London, United Kingdom

- Coordinating roles, team, & events of the academic IOE Faculty postgraduate taught dissertation support.
- 2020: 1 online competition with 2 rounds, 1 PhD session chair, 16 accepted abstracts, 11 qualified presenting competitors, 6 finalists, 3 medallists, 20 participants; 1 medallists panel, 1 Assoc Prof, 3 medallists; 1 ALT finalists panel, 1 Lecturer, 3 finalists; 2 data analysis demos, 2 competitors.
- 2019: 1 competition with departmental & faculty sessions, 5 team members, 15 presenting competitors, 6 finalists, about 50 participants; 1 finalists panel, 3 competition finalists, 1 MA Programme Leader; 1 Director meeting, IOE Director & Faculty Dean, 3 finalists.
- 2018: 1 competition with quarter-final, semi-final, & final sessions, 4 team members, 8 presenters, about 40 participants, UCL ChangeMakers award.
- 2017: 6 hourly academic presentations by 6 presenters, 1 academic conference with 8 presenters, 8 team members, about 100 participants.
- Liaising & meeting with team, presenters, academic supporters, & UCL coordinator.
- Organising, participating in, & supervising the sessions.
- Keeping presenters’, assistants', and participants’ records of contact details and participation.
- Evaluating project & receiving presenter, assistant, & participant feedback.
- Academic presenter recruitment including PhD student applications & assessment sessions.
- Roles supervised & undertaken:
- Session Chair: Greetings, time, & audience interaction management
- Reviewer: Academic abstracts & presentations
- IT Manager: IT equipment & Slido
- Media Manager: WordPress (uidsp.wordpress.com), Facebook (IDSPIOE), Twitter (@IDSPIOE), YouTube, LinkedIn, SlideShare, MS Teams, MS Stream
- Registry: participant registration
- Room Manager: non-IT facilities
- Secretary: administrative communication with organisers, presenters, & participants & document preparation.
- Videographer: recording with consumer camcorder.
- Video Editor: editing & production.

London, United Kingdom

Recruited by the UCL Arena Centre for Research-based Education for the Academic Practice and Technology (APT) Conference 2019 at UCL Bentham House on 1 July 2019.
- Liaising with organisers, session chairs, presenters, & conference assistants
- Informing presenters about the IT equipment
- Being a first point of contact for any issues faced by delegates
- Reporting progress of tasks & presentations, offering recorded evidence
- Helping set up & clear up rooms before & after presentations
- Directing delegates to the correct rooms
Organisers: Simon Walker, Josh Redmond

London, United Kingdom

Recruited by the UCL Estates Student Accommodation for the UCL Accommodation International Student Welcome in Sep 2018 at UCL student accommodation venues John Adams Hall, Endsleigh Gardens, Stapleton House, & Ramsay Hall.
- Organising and delegating the Accommodation Ambassadors tasks.
- Delivering all relevant moving-in weekend initiatives for residents and managing their expectations.
- Working directly with the Student Experience Manager and Accommodation Management to deliver a programme of activities, feeding back changes as appropriate.
- Providing administrative and operational support including the following five.
- Conducting room checks and ensuring appropriate issues are recorded and dealt with.
- Checking-in students into the Halls of Residence.
- Providing Out of Hours support for residents and dealing with concerns that they might have.
- Dealing with resident enquiries and providing appropriate advice and support.
- Liaising with external partners in setting up and ensuring initiatives are according to plan and on schedule.
- Liaising with residents and parents in person.
- Dealing with enquiries relating to Accommodation, UCL, the local area and London.
- Ensuring effective communication with line manager regarding work in progress, implementation of developments and emerging trends or issues.
- Undertaking all work in line with UCL policies, procedures and regulations.
- Maintaining an awareness and observation of Fire and Health & Safety Regulations.
- Contributing significantly to a positive social and living experience for students.
Student Experience Manager: Ken Mathew.
Student Experience Officer: Zoltan Kalmar.

Cambridge, United Kingdom

At Sidney Sussex College & Fitzwilliam College.
- Tutoring a group of 16-17 year old & a group of 13-15 year old international students.
- Planning & implementing seminars, tutorials, & lessons.
- Setting assignments & providing feedback & marking.
- Cooperating with the tutees using Google docs.
- Personally invited to cover a highly competitive role.
Cambridge Programmes Manager: Monika Jerszynska.
Cambridge Academic Coordinator: Lisa McCarthy.

London, United Kingdom

Recruited by the UCL Widening Participation for the UCL undergraduate Open Day 2017 at UCL campus.
- Ushering, query answering, & general assistance of participants.
- Monitoring & reporting attendees' numbers & event room status.
- Room manager for the about 300 stewards’ breakfast & lunch.
- Liaison with organisers.
Open Day Leader: Lisa Schappert.
Zone Leader: Elizabeth Carter.
Team Leader: Anna Henley.
Stewards' Catering Supervisor: Clare Bowerman.

London, United Kingdom

- Coordinating the UCL ChangeMakers-awarded University Coding Tutoring Project (UCTP) for UCL doctoral students offering 1.5h Python tuition sessions.
- Creating, updating, & managing the project website, https://uctp.wordpress.com.
- Creating, updating, & managing the project Slack team, https://uctp.slack.com.
- Tutor recruitment including applications & interviews.
- Tutee online registration.
- Project induction.
- Liaising & meeting with UCL student tutors & tutees & UCL staff members.
- Conducting & supervising tutoring at UCL public clusters.
- Advertising online.
- Evaluating project & receiving tutee feedback.
- Completing requested paperwork.

London, United Kingdom

Recruited by the UCL Centre for the Advancement of Learning & Teaching (CALT) for the UCL Teaching & Learning Conference 2016 at UCL IOE on 19 Apr 2016.
- Guidance and assistance of a fully visually-impaired student participant.
- Liaison with organisers.
- Detailed report of activities.
Conference Steering Committee Chair: Dr Jason Davies.
Conference Administrators: Amanda Greenslade, Andrew Bishop.

London, United Kingdom

Working at
- Westminster Academy with KS3-4.
Recruitment Manager/Consultant: Joanna Nicolaou

London, United Kingdom

- Tutoring KS3-4 students in Mathematics in Greater London.
- Composing individual education plans (IEPs) & progress reports.
Senior Tuition Co-ordinator: Claire Sheerin.

London, United Kingdom

Working at
- Highshore School with Julia Manning
- The Bridge Integrated Learning Space (ILS) with Antonia Masson
- The Garden with Patricia
- College Park School with Debby
Senior Account Manager/Consultant: Martin Keddie

London, United Kingdom

- Improving the Camden Council funded study support project (SSP) run at the community charitable company aiming at improving Year 6-11 student attainment mainly in Mathematics & English.
- Creating SSP's website on Wordpress.
- Evaluating SSP utilising an online questionnaire to parents, teachers, & tutors.
- Exploring & designing several aspects for the next run of the project.
- Making contacts and partnerships with schools, parents, and charity staff.
- Contributing into project-related internal & external meetings.
- Updating company's page on LinkedIn.
- Delivering detailed report of activities.
Director: Sharon Gordon.
Funding: UCL Advances.

London, United Kingdom

- Suggesting improvements to the wording & display of mathematical problems & their solutions for Key Stages 2 & 3 in collaboration with a secondary Mathematics teacher at the Learnlex online environment.
Director: Martin Ripley

London, United Kingdom

Recruited by the UCL Centre for the Advancement of Learning & Teaching (CALT) for the UCL Teaching & Learning Conference 2015 at UCL IOE on 13 Apr 2015.
- Conference room management & assistance in a room (728) of 50 people capacity for 4 fair & 1 poster sessions of 30 minutes.
- Liaison with organisers and speakers.
- Time management for presentations.
- Participant guidance & query response.
- Poster installation & materials transportation.
- Detailed report of activities.
Conference Steering Committee Chair: Dr Jason Davies.
Conference Administrators: Fiona Wilkie, Amanda Greenslade.

London, United Kingdom

For the London Festival of Education (LFE) 2015 at UCL IOE.
- Festival room management of a hall (Nunn Hall) with 100 people capacity for 6 sessions of about 45 minutes including installation of speaker presentations and clickers on the hall computer, projector & lighting adjustment, entrance checking, and room arrangement and clearing.
- Liaison with organisers and speakers.
- Presentation time management.
- Participant guidance both verbal and by signpost sticking and query response.
- Venue dressing & preparation of materials.
- Report of activities.
Overall Event Manager: Helen Casey.
Events Coordinator: Carla Madrilejo.

Kavisos, Alexandroupoli, Greece

- Guarding & bookkeeping of personnel, services, spaces, armoury & other equipment.
- Supplies carrying & elevenses distribution.
- Cleaning & arrangement of indoor & outdoor spaces, military vehicles, equipment & kitchenware.
- Training in & out of the camp by day & night.
- Technique learning, physical exercises, marches & parades.
Company: 31 ΛΔΒ. Health category: (opthalmological) Ι3. Main duty: Writer.
Captain: I. Zikidis.
Notes: Almost isolated from the outer world & known people & required to live among & cooperate with new unknown & in several aspects different ones & where occasionally endurance against cold & mosquitos was needed. 1st month of basic training at (604 ΤΠ) Kilkis, Greece.

Thessaloniki, Greece

- Research, analysis, design, development, documentation & presentation for the internationally collaborative EU (FP5) R&D project “Worlds Studio”.
Workplace: Artificial Intelligence & Information Analysis (AIIA) laboratory.
Head: Prof. Ioannis Pitas.
Topic: Application of speech synthesis in a natural language interactive environment using talking heads under the MPEG-4 standard.
Tools used: VC++, WinAPI, MFC, MS SAPI, MBROLA, freephone.
Contract: Works with Informatics and Telematics Institute (ITI) of the Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH).
Funds: EU & General Secretariat for Research & Technology (GSRT) of the Hellenic Ministry of Education & Religious Affairs.

Thessaloniki, Greece

- Teaching, orally examining, project grading, & examination supervising on professors'​ demand for the following undergraduate courses of the study direction Digital Media.
> "Digital Signal Processing"​ (2000-1 & 2001-2, winter semester);
> "Signals & Systems"​ (2001-2, spring semester);
> "Stochastic Signal Processing"​ (2001-2, spring semester).
- Invited seminar talk, in 2 parts, entitled "Speaker Verification" at the AIIA postgraduate Digital Days Seminar (25/05 & 05/06/2001), uploaded on the website of the AIIA Laboratory.
Direction Professor: Prof Ioannis Pitas.

Thessaloniki, Greece

- Research, analysis, design, development, documentation & presentation for the internationally collaborative EU (FP5) R&D project “Hypergeo”.
Workplace: Artificial Intelligence & Information Analysis (AIIA) laboratory.
Head: Prof. Ioannis Pitas.
Topic: Construction of a webpage organisation and retrieval (IR) system supporting query searching.
Tools used: bash, gawk, C, C++, IRIS nice stemmer, CMU-Cambridge toolkit.
Contract: Works with Research Committee of the Aristotle Uni. of Thessaloniki.
Funds: European Commission.

Thessaloniki, Greece

- IT Administration (with George Papadopoulos) at the Internet room for conference participants at the IEEE sponsored International Conference on Image Processing ICIP 2001.
Venue: Makedonia Palace Hotel.
Time: 7-10 Oct 2001.
General Manager: Prof Ioannis Pitas.

Thessaloniki, Greece

- Administration of an intranet with about 10 Unix workstations & Linux PCs of the types Sun (CPU: UltraSPARC, OS: Solaris), SGI (CPU: MIPS, OS: IRIX) & Intel inside (CPU: Pentium & Celeron, OS:Linux) with several services including ssh, sendmail, nfs, samba, stunnel, pop3, imap, time & apache.
- Cooperation with the intranet Windows Administrator (Evangelos Loutas)
- Guidance of a Unix assistant (Charisis Brouzioutis).
- Numerous SW installations & configurations.
- OS update of the main server from SunOS to Solaris.
- Intranet backup.
- Support of network security & users in SW & HW level.
Head: Prof. I. Pitas.
Time: & Sep-Nov 2002.

Tampere, Finland

- Cooperation with the researcher Konsta Koppinen of the Audio Research Team in the feature extraction of a Finnish text corpus.
- Invited seminar talk entitled "Speaker Verification (an overview)" at the TICSP Seminar (21/08).
- Provision of a more complete version of the presentation including experimental research results, uploaded on the website of the TICSP Seminars.
Director: Prof. J. Astola.

Thessaloniki, Greece

- Entry & adjustment from the official announcements of the Hellenic Ministry of Health for new doctor posts at community clinics into a Web GUI database developed for this purpose.
- Checking of the correctness of the searching results during the web access & use of the database.
- Suggestions about the structure of the database and its web appearance.
Place: Branch office I.
Supervisor: Dr. Alexandra Papadopoulou, Databases responsible, Mathematician.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Education And Technology, Pass

Activities and Societies: - Room Manager in London Festival of Education (LFE) 2015, 28/2/15 - Presenter & Student Assistant at UCL.

Ptychio (~Bachelor'S Degree), Theology, Excellent 9.01 (Out Of 10) (Interrupted)

Courses: 73, attached. ECTS: 260. Graduation rank: 6th among 74.

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Informatics, Unfinished

PhD topic: "Statistical Language Processing". Advisory committee: Prof. I. Pitas (supervisor), Prof. Constantine Lazos, Prof. Eleni.

Ptychio (~Bachelor'S Degree), Informatics, Excellent 9.2 (Out Of 10)

Thesis: "Speaker recognition using dynamic time warping techniques". Supervisor: Dr. C. Kotropoulos. Courses: 52, attached. Graduation.

Apolytirio (Diploma), General Studies, Excellent 19 4/10 (Out Of 20)

Last (3rd, diploma) year courses with school's level assessment: 10. A Desmi (4), A-levels equivalent: Mathematics (19/20), Physics.

Apolytirio (Diploma), General Studies, Excellent 19 11/14 (Out Of 20)

Last year courses with school's level assessment: 14. GCSEs equivalent: Mathematics (20/20), English (20/20), Informatics (20/20).