Athanasios Theocharis Email & Phone Number

Zürich, ZH, CH

United States

Switzerland

At Lakera, we are securing the future of intelligent computing. We enable enterprises to focus on building the most exciting AI applications securely by protecting them in the world of AI cyber risk. We work with Fortune 500 companies, startups, and foundation model providers. We're also the team behind Gandalf – the world's most popular AI security game.

Zurich, Switzerland

- Working on gandalf.lakera.ai- DevOps with AWS (EC2, ECS, S3, Kinesis, Fargate, OpenSearch)- Frontend (ReactJS)- Backend (Flask, Python)

Zurich, Switzerland

- Developed a novel Reinforcement Learning agent that is able to manage crops utilizing Transfer and Meta Learning methods- Fine-tuned agent on data from local agricultural fields- Used PyTorch, WandB, Python 3- Supervised by Prof. A. Krause, Dr. M. Turchetta

Thessaloniki

Project: Development and launch of a 3U CubeSat nanosatellite in collaboration with the European Space Agency, part of the “Fly Your Satellite! 3” Program- Led a team of 10 engineers, towards implementing software to successfully pass the payload’s Production Readiness Review- Designed the satellite software architecture which was approved by the European.

**On-Board Computer Subsystem**- Development and Design in embedded systems in C and C++- Unit Testing in C++- Implementation of telemetry and telecommand packet utilization services

Delft, South Holland, Netherlands

- Εxperimented with a novel Few-Shot Learning method, called SAMPTransfer- Performed an extensive ablation study, with Conv4, ResNet-10 and ResNet-18 as backbones on miniImageNet, ISIC and ChestX datasets, analyzing the robustness of the proposed method and identifying the optimal design choices- Used PyTorch, WandB, Python3Supervisor:Assistant Prof.Hadi.

Supervisor: Assoc. Prof. S. IdreosGitHub Repository: github.com/athatheo/athatheo.github.ioProject: Prototype of a key-value storage engine; optimizing the balance between cloud-costand performance- Worked on leveraging metadata to form an optimal database template, based on the data’s type, structure and usage- Extended the system with database designs.

Madrid Area, Spain

- Designed, developed and released into production an automated data retrieval tool, for use in Integration Tests resulting in further automating CI/CD pipelines, extensively used as an internal tool, using AWS (S3, EC2), Java- Optimized the team’s DevOps processes, resulting in saving more than 5 workhours per week

Remote

Successful completion of the project.Expanding a GNU Radio OOT module, gr-satellites with protocols from the CCSDS stack

Thessaloniki, Greece

• Launch of a multiplayer card game to raise public awareness of cancer causes, prevention methods and treatment.
• Designed, developed and tested the application
• Developed on Unity Game Engine, in C#, for Android
• Showcased the application during the “Giant Jamboree” of iGEM competition, in Boston, USA

Thessaloniki, Greece

• 1st synthetic biology team in Greece to participate in the international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) Competition, in which multidisciplinary teams conceptualize and build genetically engineered systems using.
• Founding member of the team
• Performed bioinformatic analysis to identify colorectal Ucancer – associated genes and miRNAs in R
• Developed Quul; an Android game on Unity Game UEngine
• Led, designed and organized the Integrated Human UPractices subproject
• Raised ~51.000€ to fund the whole project

Xanthi, Greece

• Trained a group of individuals as tutors for robotics Ucourses
• Assisted in developing the individuals’ soft skills
• Taught a teambuilding exercises course

Thessaloniki, Greece

• Creation of a Brain Computer Interface by utilizing EEG-based signal analysis methods to wirelessly control an RC-car.
• Conceptualized and implemented the idea Uindependently
• Presented the prototype on multiple conferences
• Featured in: National TV news (ANT1 News) and Umore than 20 national media outlets (e.g. Voria, UElliniki Gnomi, dotnews)

Master Of Science - Ms, Artificial Intelligence

- Exchange Student for Winter '22-'23 semester - Thesis

Master Of Science - Ms, Artificial Intelligence

Bachelor'S Degree, Computer Science

Activities and Societies: GPA: 8.77/10.0