Summary

Paschalis Bizopoulos (in Greek: Πασχάλης Μπιζόπουλος) is a Computer Engineer with experience in designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining nixified and web-based AI applications using portable tools, adhering to well-established standards, and applying best practices in DevOps and MLOps. He invented Sparsely activated networks, which can be used for signal decomposition, compression and motif finding.

Tools/Technologies

• Unix
  • POSIX Shell & Utilities: for REPL and script programming
  • GNU Coreutils: for REPL programming
  • Readline: for command line editing
  • Vim: for text editing
  • Git: for version control
• Nix (wherein the following technologies are used):
  • Python: for artifact generation, backend, client-side, CLI and GUI programming
  • LaTeX: for document preparation
  • HTML/CSS/JavaScript: for client-side and frontend programming

Sample HTML/CSS/JavaScript applications

• Comprehensive Comparison of Deep Learning Models for Lung and COVID-19 Lesion Segmentation in CT
• Signal2Image Modules in Deep Neural Networks for EEG Classification
• Sparsely activated networks

Education

• (2014-2019) PhD School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens, Thesis: Sparsely Activated Networks: A new method for decomposing and compressing data (in Greek) [abstract] [pdf]
• (2011-2012) MSc Wireless Communication Systems, Brunel University, Awarded with distinction, Thesis (completed at ESIEE, Paris, France): EEGArtimat, An EEG Artifact Detector and Removal tool
• (2003-2010) BSc Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thesis: Soliton Solutions of Sigma models in 1+1 and 2+1 dimensions

Awards

• (2017 June) Fulbright Scholarship
• (2002) Honorary award from the Hellenic Mathematical Society
• (1997-2003) High School excellence awards

Research experience

• (2024 October-2025 March) Postdoctoral researcher, dTHOR-EDF, Thessaloniki, Greece
• (2023 May-2024 April) Postdoctoral researcher, TeamAware-Horizon 2020, Thessaloniki, Greece
• (2023 April-2025 March) Postdoctoral researcher, ENFLATE-Horizon Europe, Thessaloniki, Greece
• (2023 April-2023 June) Postdoctoral researcher, MyRuralHealth-CRANE, Thessaloniki, Greece
• (2021 April-2024 March) Postdoctoral researcher, INCISIVE-Horizon 2020, Thessaloniki, Greece
• (2020 February-2021 March) Postdoctoral researcher, TeNDER-Horizon 2020, Thessaloniki, Greece
• (2018 July-2020 January) Postgraduate researcher, HOLOBALANCE-Horizon 2020, Athens, Greece
• (2017 September-2018 March) Doctoral dissertation visiting research student, Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center, Boston, USA
• (2017 July-2017 August) Postgraduate researcher, HarmonicSS-Horizon 2020, Athens, Greece
• (2016 July-2017 May) Postgraduate researcher, Center for the Fight against Infarction, Rome, Italy
• (2015 April-2016 June) Postgraduate researcher, HEARTEN-Horizon 2020, Athens, Greece
• (2014 September-2015 January) Postgraduate researcher, EurHealthAgeing-FP7, Athens, Greece

Teaching

• (2013-2015) DSP on Biomedical Signals, Undergraduate laboratory course, National Technical University of Athens
• (2013-2015) Principles of Biomedical Imaging, Undergraduate laboratory course, National Technical University of Athens

Languages

• English, Proficiency, University of Michigan (ECPE)
• Greek, Native speaker

Select publication

1. Paschalis Bizopoulos, and Dimitrios Koutsouris. "Sparsely activated networks." IEEE transactions on neural networks and learning systems 32.3 (2020): 1304-1313. [abstract] [pdf] [code] [web application]

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