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Christoforos Sfakianakis

Computer Science Teacher in Secondary Education

MSc in Computational and Cognitive Vision and Robotics

Ph.D. Candidate in Medical Image Analysis with Deep Learning

FIDE Certified Chess School Instructor



Contact

Home address: Vainia 72200, Ierapetra, Crete, Greece

Mobile: (+30) 6974027265

Skype: chris.sfak

Email: csfakian AT gmail DOT com

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/christoforos-sfakianakis/

GitHub: https://github.com/csfak

Google Scholar: https://tinyurl.com/y5avjuss

Educational School Blog: https://blogs.sch.gr/csfakian/

FIDE Profile: https://ratings.fide.com/profile/42177804


Skills

  • Programming Languages:

    • Python, C/C++, Embedded C, C#, Matlab, SQL

  • Programming Frameworks / Tools:

    • PyTorch, TensorFlow, Keras, OpenCV, scikit-learn, scikit-image, MedPy, Pillow, SimpleITK, NumPy, matplotlib

  • Educational Frameworks / Tools:

    • MIT Scratch, Autodesk Tinkercad, Raspberry Pi Ecosystem, LibreOffice


Languages

  • Greek (Native)
  • English (C2)

Hobbies

Experience

  • Computer Science Teacher in Secondary Education:

    • Ministry of Education, Lifelong Learning and Religious Affairs

    [Sep 2024 - present] Teacher at Experimental Gymnasium

    [Sep 2021 - Aug 2024] Teacher at Junior Secondary Education School

    [Sep 2009 - Aug 2021] Deputy Head Teacher at Second Chance Education School

    [Sep 2004 - Aug 2009] Teacher at Senior Secondary Education School


  • Graduate Teaching Assistant:

    • University of Crete, Department of Computer Science

    [Feb 2019 - Jun 2021] Graduate Teaching Assistant (TA) in courses:

    1. "Algorithms and Complexity", Spring 2019

    2. "Discrete Mathematics", Fall 2019

    3. "Linear Algebra", Spring 2020, Fall 2020

    4. "Pattern Recognition" (advanced under-graduate and graduate course), Spring 2021

    Tasks: Tutoring, lectures, assigning and grading exercises


  • Computer science teacher at Institute of Vocational Training:

    • Ministry of Education, General Secretariat for Vocational Education, Training, Life-long Learning and Youth

    [Oct 2005 - Feb 2008, Mar 2024 - Jun 2024] Teaching computer science specialization courses to adult students (C, C++, SQL, etc)


  • Senior Firmware Engineer:

    • Atmel Corporation

    [Sep 2001 - Aug 2003] Embedded Software - Firmware Engineer at Atmel's wifi USB interface cards


Education

  • University of Crete

    • School of Medicine

    [Dec 2022 - present] Ph.D. Candidate in Echocardiography Image Analysis with Deep Learning


  • University of Crete

    • Department of Computer Science (CSD)

    [Mar 2022] Master of Science - MSc in Computational and Cognitive Vision and Robotics

    Thesis: GUDU: Geometrically-constrained Ultrasound Data augmentation in U-Net for echocardiography semantic segmentation (link)


  • University of Patras - Polytechnical School

    • Computer Engineering and Informatics Department (CEID)

    [Jul 2002] Diploma - Intergrated Master in Computer Engineering and Informatics

    Thesis: Sound processing and transmission in video-conference system (link)


Publications

  • Leaderboard participant in Cardiac Acquisitions for Multi-structure Ultrasound Segmentation (CAMUS) contest, January 2023 (link)

  • C. Sfakianakis, G. Simantiris, G. Tziritas, GUDU: Geometrically-Constrained Ultrasound Data Augmentation in U-Net for Echocardiography Semantic Segmentation,

    - Biomedical Signal Processing and Control Journal, Vol. 82, April 2023 (link)

    - Social Science Research Network (SSRN) - Preprint, September 2022 (link)


Certifications & Courses

  • Complete C# Masterclass (Udemy)

    • [Aug 2024] Credential ID: UC-1d824afc-3916-4904-aa16-9e148c6af0a2 (link)

  • Chess and Strategy Games in the Classroom (ChessPlus)

    • [Nov 2023] Certificate No: 0021 (link)

  • FIDE Chess School Instructor Certification Title (FIDE EDU Commission)

    • [Jul 2023] FIDE ID: 42177804 (link)

  • Deep Neural Networks with PyTorch (IBM - Coursera)

    • [Jul 2023] Credential ID: WK8QJ9MDH6W6 (link)

  • C++ Programming - From Beginner to Beyond (Udemy)

    • [Nov 2022] Credential ID: UC-c71b80a9-90ba-4f16-853d-9058f23ee0a7 (link)

  • LaTeX for Professional Publications (Udemy)

    • [Nov 2021] Credential ID: UC-63643b1e-6759-451b-84a0-c22497ccde14 (link)

  • Deep Learning in Python - Skill track (DataCamp)

    • [Apr 2021] Credential ID: #215,612 (link)

  • Image Processing with Python - Skill track (DataCamp)

    • [Apr 2021] Credential ID: #216,541 (link)

  • Complete Tensorflow 2 and Keras Deep Learning Bootcamp (Udemy)

    • [Jul 2020] Credential ID: UC-94213da2-ee99-4250-9958-d03a6d5d5d50 (link)

  • Machine Learning (Stanford University - Coursera)

    • [Aug 2019] Credential ID: XXWA4DRDG5BS (link)

  • Probability theory (Mathesis@Crete University Press)

    • [Dec 2018] Credential ID: 8885f8aaaf0b4f1b8a3eb3f440466d79 (link)

  • Raspberry Pi Full Stack Raspbian - Tech Explorations™ (Udemy)

    • [Oct 2018] Credential ID: UC-O0GT3Y0T (link)

  • Advanced programming in Python (Mathesis@Crete University Press)

    • [Jun 2018] Credential ID: e5f5259faba544738700041027a820c4 (link)

  • Regex Academy: An Introduction To Text Parsing Sorcery (Udemy)

    • [Feb 2018] Credential ID: UC-KX2AVHQX (link)

  • Introduction to Python (Mathesis@Crete University Press)

    • [Dec 2017] Credential ID: 535c0e028e0c420db263f0240cae1122 (link)