Experience
Research Fellow | Equitech Futures | Jan. 2026 — present
Public-Interest AI Data Sovereignty
- Develop actionable guidance on data sovereignty and open-source AI to support builders and institutions advancing public-interest AI.
Open Source Contributor | Agora Citizen Network | Feb. — Jun. 2025
LLMs Civic Tech Open Source
- Engineered system prompts and tuned inference parameters (Temperature, Top-P, Top-K) to improve the semantic accuracy of automated summaries and topic assignment for a digital democracy platform.
- Conducted a comparative analysis of self-hosted EC2 infrastructure versus managed APIs (DeepSeek, OpenAI, Anthropic, Google) estimating deployment costs to inform backend architecture selection.
Applied Data Scholar | Equitech Futures | Oct. — Dec. 2024
Privacy Civic Tech Data Science
- Analyzed over 1 million privacy policy records using Python (Pandas, Statsmodels) to model longitudinal trends in readability metrics across high-data sectors, informing transparency guidelines for digital governance regulators.
- Co-developed an interactive Streamlit dashboard for the Africa Utility Data Collaborative, consolidating disparate utility datasets into standardized KPIs that enable the Kenyan Water Services Regulatory Board (WASREB) to monitor service delivery and operational compliance (SDG 6).
Research Assistant, Applied ML | Laboratoire de Physique Corpusculaire | Sep. 2022 — Jan. 2023
Machine Learning Research
- Analyzed 287 patient datasets (17,000+ DICOM structures) to quantify variability in “non-standard” radiotherapy structures across 42 medical centers, identifying significant heterogeneity in treatment planning.
- Developed Gradient Boosted Trees and Neural Networks to predict clinical outcomes from topological complexity features, achieving 0.81 accuracy (F2-score: 0.72).
- Co-authored a peer-reviewed study advocating for the standardization of auxiliary structures to improve dose optimization in head & neck cancer treatment.
Regional Manager & Research Assistant | CoronaNet Research Project | Sep. — Dec. 2020
Open Data Research Team Lead
- Managed a distributed team to build and validate the South Asia component of a global open-access COVID-19 policy dataset, ensuring compliance with coding taxonomies for public use.
- Implemented systematic data quality protocols to harmonize multi-source data, ensuring consistency and reliability across distributed research outputs.
Intern | Finding Refuge | Jun. — Sep. 2020
Program Management Community Outreach
- Supported program development for refugee communities in Athens while managing partner outreach and email communications via Mailchimp.
Cybersecurity Training
Penetration Testing | Red Team Academy | Sep. 2025 — Jan. 2026
Certification Cybersecurity
- Certified Penetration Tester course focused on modern infrastructure and application security.
- Topics: Network and cybersecurity fundamentals, reconnaissance, scanning, and vulnerability assessment across web, network, and system targets.
Education
M.Sc. Physics (Erasmus Mundus Joint Master) | EU Nuclear Physics Consortium | 2021 — 2023
Mobility Track: Univ. of Seville (Spain), Univ. of Caen Normandie (France), Univ. of Catania (Italy)
- GPA: 110/110 e lode.
- Erasmus Mundus Scholar (EU-EACEA).
- Thesis at INFN Laboratori Nazionali del Sud in applied nuclear physics.
B.S. Physics | New York University Abu Dhabi (NYUAD) | 2017 — 2021
- GPA: 3.74/4.0.
Leadership Development
Accelerator Fellow | LedBy Foundation | 2024
- 6-month fellowship focused on negotiation, executive communication, and career mentorship.
Skills
Data Science: Python, Statistics, Machine Learning, Dashboards & Visualization
Research: Quantitative Research, Technical Writing
Cybersecurity: Network, Web, and System Security Fundamentals