Summary

Paschalis Bizopoulos (in Greek: Πασχάλης Μπιζόπουλος) is a computer engineer with experience in designing, developing, deploying, and maintaining reproducible AI systems using Nix-based environments, portable tooling, and DevOps/MLOps best practices. He introduced Sparsely Activated Networks, a method for signal decomposition, compression and pattern discovery.

Education

• 2014 - 2019, PhD 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 Electrical & Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thesis: Soliton Solutions of Sigma models in 1+1 and 2+1 dimensions

Selected publication

• 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]

Research Experience

• Postdoctoral researcher, Centre for Research & Technology Hellas, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • 2026 Mar - 2026 Jun, PATH-Horizon Europe
  • 2025 Apr - 2026 Jun, ENACT-Horizon Europe
  • 2024 Oct - 2025 Nov, dTHOR-EDF
  • 2023 May - 2024 Apr, TeamAware-Horizon 2020
  • 2023 Apr - 2025 Jun, ENFLATE-Horizon Europe
  • 2023 Apr - 2023 Jun, MyRuralHealth-CRANE
  • 2021 Apr - 2024 Mar, INCISIVE-Horizon 2020
  • 2020 Feb - 2021 Mar, TeNDER-Horizon 2020
• Postgraduate researcher, National Technical University of Athens, Athens, Greece
  • 2018 Jul - 2020 Jan, HOLOBALANCE-Horizon 2020
  • 2017 Sep - 2018 Mar, Doctoral dissertation visiting research student, Harvard-MIT Biomedical Engineering Center, Boston, USA
  • 2017 Jul - 2017 Aug, HarmonicSS-Horizon 2020
  • 2016 Jul - 2017 May, Center for the Fight against Infarction, Rome, Italy
  • 2015 Apr - 2016 Jun, HEARTEN-Horizon 2020
  • 2014 Sep - 2015 Jan, EurHealthAgeing-FP7

Awards

• 2017, Fulbright Scholarship
• 2002, Honorary Award from the Hellenic Mathematical Society
• 1997 - 2003, High School excellence awards

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

Scholar profile

Contact

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