Nick Louloudakis Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, Gb

Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Note: PhD Thesis completed and submitted - pending viva voce in February 2025.Pursuing a Doctorate degree in Computer Science, with focus on automated software testing and verification, utilizing program analysis and code generation techniques. In more detail, my research is related to differential testing, fault localization, and repair of perception AI under different computational environment aspects, such as deep learning frameworks and conversions, compiler optimizations and deployment on different hardware acceleration devices.Key Milestones:∙ PhD Thesis completed and submitted - pending viva voce.∙ Primary research contribution under review at rank A* conference.∙Tool contribution under review at rank A* conference.∙ Reviewer for AAAI 2024 conference, SRRAI Track.∙ Contribution accepted & presented at ICSME 2023, Industry Track (rank A conference).∙ Contribution accepted & presented at ASE 2023, NIER Track (rank A* conference).∙ Presented my work at TAROT Summer School on Testing, Verification & Validation, KCL, July 2023.∙ Contribution accepted & presented at NeurIPS MLSafety 2022 workshop.∙ Attended Programming Language Implementation Summer School 2022.∙ Successfully passed PhD upgrade viva, as well as 2nd and 3rd year evaluation.

United Kingdom

Contributing on planning, organization and delivery of the Software Testing course, with participation of over 150 students per semester, for 4 consecutive semesters.Key Tasks Accomplished:∙ Supervised 4 M.Sc. Students for their dissertation (building a criteria-based marking system).∙ Designed, implemented and released 2 coursework projects in full extent.∙ Delivered numerous tutoring and coursework lectures.∙ Answered 270+ questions to students in order to assist them in their coursework delivery phase.∙ Implemented automated marking scripts for the grading process.∙ Marked numerous coursework projects and final examinations.

United Kingdom

Coordinated the design and development of Carbon Glance product, providing strategic insights and guidance. As a result, Carbon Glance established a strong development team, capable of delivering successfully towards product development, while the company transitioned from concept to incorporation and clientele growth.Responsibilities:∙ Coordinated a team of talented and strong developers - including two capable technical leaders.∙ Participated in key decisions and provided insights and guidance related to the product design and development.∙ Actively attended important events, meetings, potential lead calls and interviews related to the company growth, networking, and collaborations, acting both as company tech representative and co-founder.

Member of the Glasgow Intelligent Computing Laboratory (gicLAB). Collaborating with other researchers in order to explore concepts related to differential testing of Deep Neural Networks, in relation to computational aspects (e.g., GPU deployment).

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

Worked as a PhD Research Associate at Oracle Labs East.Implemented a very interesting (and novel) feature in Sandwood compiler.More on this soon...Project Codebase: https://github.com/oracle/sandwood

Employed as a full-stack Software Engineer (focus on back-end development).Member of the brand design development team.Work Highlights:∙ AMP integration: Implemented a framework to create hybrid, valid AMP pages for our Marketing Site, considering cases of Sass-to-(inline) CSS integration, optimizations and refinements while minimizing integration effort and hiding complexity from the development process.∙ Testing Suite: Implemented the testing mechanism for the brand design assets of the company. The mechanism includes the setup and automation unit, integration and e2e tests, enabling code generation, automatic execution as part of the code life cycle and effective reporting. The system also allows CI/CD utilization.∙ Search Integration: Implemented from scratch a comprehensive component responsible for the integration with a third-party search service and the display of real-time results, considering term error-proneness, automatic update of index entries and proper data manipulation.∙ Internationalization: Worked towards preparing the i18n integration of resources across different services and systems.∙ Brand Design Assets Redesign: Involved to a considerable extent at the latest redesign and implementation of workable.com and resources.workable.com. Responsible for the implementation of various components, such as a promotion mechanism providing extended configuration capabilities, content filtering mechanisms and more.∙ Analytics Integration: Refined the analytics integration mechanism numerous services of the company.∙ Cookie Consent: Integrated the cookie consent mechanism for numerous important company services.It is also worth noting that my work duties involved extensive communication and collaboration with professionals from different departments and teams, with diverse skills and backgrounds, as well as commonly taking ownership and leading the projects I worked on.

Served as instructor to future software development professionals of ages 20 - 50 mainly, coming from different professional backgrounds at PeopleCert Education Coding Bootcamp.∙ Responsibilities included teaching, instructional material design and updates, assignments instruction, coordination and grading, examinations supervision and more.∙ Participated in multiple bootcamp iterations.I am happy that a considerable percentage of my students were employed to renown corporations (official numbers show that bootcamp students' employability reaches 95%).

Greece

Employed at the CMT industry, in one of the largest providers in Greece.∙ Worked on the area of systems integration and procedures pipelining, using well-known Oracle technologies.∙ Contributed on process automation solutions that effectively increased the productivity of my team, utilizing automatic code generation and resources verification.

Hellenic Army - Information Systems Support Center (Kepyes)

Actively contributed on the development of two Content Management Systems, using .NET technologies (C#, Entity Framework, ASP.NET Razor), SQL and Angular 2.

Crete, Greece

As a Software Engineer of the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory, my area of specialization was research and development on state-of-the-art commercial educational systems, but also IOT-enabled Smart Environments, with a focus on their programmability and testing.∙ Designed and Implemented a database infrastructure for a smart educational suite.∙ Created an edutainment system aiming the teaching of monetary transactions.∙ Designed, implemented and evaluated a testing suite for a Smart Environments programmability and orchestration system.It is worth noting that, my work lead into the production of both commercial and research systems, but also a number of publications, including the Best Paper Award of "AmITest: A Testing Framework for Ambient Intelligence Learning Applications" in eLmL 2016 conference.Technologies used: C#, MEAN Stack (MongoDB, ExpressJS, AngularJS, NodeJS), Entity Framework, WPF, OpenAPI Swagger Specification, Mocha, Chai, HandlebarsJS, CodeMirror, Tern Code Autocompletion Engine.

Provided Teaching Assistance on the following University Courses: "Web Programming" , "Human-Computer Interaction", "Advanced Topics in Human-Computer Interaction", "Computer Networks"​, "Applied Mathematics for Engineers" and "Discrete Mathematics"​.My responsibilities included but were not limited to the provision of assisting lectures and instructional material, assignments and examinations grading, additional assistance to the undergraduate students and more.

Worked as a web development intern in JoinWeb. Worked on five great web projects, using server and client side web technologies such as PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript and more, along with well-known Content Management System and responsive design APIs and Frameworks, following user friendly and responsive design principles.

Implemented User Interface and Transceiver Locating system components for an emergency communications system. Technologies used: Java, Swing API.

Implemented the mobile web application of the University of Crete, including both its front-end and back-end management system that integrates a smart mechanism of content management and presentation. Technologies used: PHP, JavaScript, HTML, CSS, JSON, REST APIs.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd

M.Sc., Computer Science

B.Sc., Computer Science