Current roles:
Tenure-track Assistant Professor at the Singapore University of Technology and Design (ESD Pillar).
Fellow at the Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore
Affiliated Researcher at Archimedes Research Unit, Greece
Experience:
March 2018 - September 2019: Research Fellow, Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, National University of Singapore.
February 2014 - February 2018: Research Fellow, Computer Science Group, Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore.
PhD in Mathematical Optimization: Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica (CWI), Netherlands. Supervised by Professor Monique Laurent.
MSc in Theoretical Computer Science: National University of Athens, Greece.
BSc in Applied and Theoretical Mathematics: Department of Mathematics, National University of Athens, Greece.
Open positions:
One fully funded PhD position is available under the project "From Scarce Data to Smart Decisions: Identifying and Controlling Agent Behavior in Games," supported by the Ministry of Education, Singapore. The intended start date is Jan 2026.
Multiple fully funded PhD positions are available through Singapore’s National Quantum Scholarship scheme, supported by the Centre for Quantum Technologies (CQT). Intended start date is January or September 2026. Please reach out!
Upcoming events:
Dec 15–17, 2025: Organizing a three-day workshop on "Quantum Algorithms and Optimization" in Athens, Greece. https://quantum-in-athens.com. The workshop is hosted by the National Centre for Scientific Research Demokritos and the Athena Research Center.
Dec 7–18, 2026: Organizing a two-week workshop hosted by the Institute for Mathematical Sciences (IMS) in Singapore, titled "Optimization over Matrices: From Data Science to Quantum Computing." Event page: https://ims.nus.edu.sg/events/optimizationmatrices/
June 2026: Organizing a minisymposium (6 talks) on "Games, Dynamics, and Optimization" at the SIAM Conference on Optimization in Edinburgh. Co-organized with Georgios Piliouras from DeepMind UK.
