Fragkou Evangelia

Ph.D Student @UTH




About

Evangelia Fragkou received her diploma (Integrated Master's Degree - BEng+MEng) from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE Dept.), at University of Thessaly (UTH), in 2019. She is now a PhD candidate at the same Department and member of the DANA Lab, of University of Thessaly. She has earned a HFRI grant to carry out her PhD studies. Her main research interests lie in the area of machine/deep learning. Furthermore, she is a teaching assistant in courses at University of Thessaly, she is a certified Adult Educator of Non-Formal Education and concurrently, she prepares high school students for their panhellenic exams on the subject of Informatics.

  • 09/10/2019 - Today
    Ph.D Student on the subject: "Deep Learning and its Applications in Big Data Networks Performance Improvement",
    advised by Assoc.Prof. Dimitrios Katsaros.

Distributed And Network Algorithmics (DANA) lab, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering,University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece.

  • 16/10/2013 – 28/06/2019
    Diploma (Integrated Master's Degree - BEng+MEng - 300 ECTS): Electrical and Computer Engineering.

Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos, Greece

Fellowship

  • 20/04/2022 – 20/03/2024

Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (HFRI) : 2-years-granted project for Ph.D studies – 3rd Call for HFRI PhD Fellowships (Fellowship Number: 5631).

Selected
Publications

Found in various bibliographic

databases:

Journals

[J2] E. Fragkou, M. Koultouki, D. Katsaros, ”Model reduction of feed forward neural networks for resource-constrained devices, Applied Intelligence (Springer) (2022).https://doi.org/10.1007/s10489-022-04195-8.

[J1] E. Fragkou, D. Papakostas, T. Kasidakis, D. Katsaros. 2022. "Multilayer Backbones for Internet of Battlefield Things", Future Internet (MDPI) 14, no. 6: 186. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi14060186.


Conferences

[C5] E. Fragkou, V. Lygnos, D. Katsaros, Transfer Learning for Convolutional Neural Networks in Tiny Deep Learning Environments, Proceedings of PCI2022, to appear.

[C4] E. Fragkou, D. Katsaros, “Memory Reduction and Training Acceleration of Neural Networks for Tiny Machine Learning”, Poster, 4th Summit on Gender Equality in Computing, (GEC’22), Hybrid Event, June 16-17, 2022.

[C3] A. Chouliaras, E. Fragkou, D. Katsaros, “Feed Forward Neural Network Sparsification with Dynamic Pruning, Proceedings of 25th Pan-Hellenic Conference on Informatics (PCI2021), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York, NY, USA, 12–17, November, 2021, DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3503823.3503826.

[C2] E. Fragkou, D. Katsaros, Y. Manolopoulos. "Sink Group Betweenness Centrality", Proceedings 25th International Database Engineering & Applications Symposium (IDEAS), pp.5-11, Montreal, Canada, July 2021.

[C1] D. Papakostas, T. Kasidakis, E. Fragkou, D. Katsaros, Backbones for Internet of Battlefield Things, Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP Wireless On-demand Network Systems and Services (WONS), pp. 116-123, March 9-11, 2021.


Academic services

  • Reviewer for: IEEE Access,

  • Reviewer for: Computer Science and Information Systems (ComSIS),

  • Reviewer for: Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics,

  • Publicity and Assistance: Workshop, entitled: 2nd International Workshop on Computational Aspects of Network Science (CAoNS), Turin, Italy – Σεπτεμβριος 05 , 2022 – Hybrid conference,

  • Publicity and Assistance: Computational Aspects of Network Science (CAoNS) workshop in Tartu, Estonia - August 24, 2021 – Virtual Conference.

Languages

  • Greek - Native Language.

  • 09/2020
    English – Certificate of Proficiency in English (ECPE) – Level (C2).
    University of Michigan.

Licenses

  • 27/02/2020 - Today
    License of Practicing Profession of Electrical & Computer Engineering,
    Technical Chamber of Greece (
    TEE - TCG) – Regional Section of Magnesia.

  • 28/04/2022
    Certificate of Educational Sufficiency – Certified Adult Educator of Non-Formal Education (
    EOPPEP).
    (Certification Code: EB 46338)

Teaching Experience

  • 01/11/2022 - 12/12/2022
    Educator - Teaching the basics of Informatics
    DIMITRA Education & Consulting SA , Larissa, Thessalia, Greece.

  • 20/04/2022 - 30/09/2022
    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos.
    -In course: “ECE216 – Algorithms”, supervising and correcting the lab assignments of students.

  • 05/05/2021 - 30/09/2021
    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Thessaly, Volos.
    -In course: “ECE216 – Algorithms”, supervising and correcting the lab assignments of students.

  • 01/11/2019 – 20/12/2019
    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    Department of Digital Systems, University of Thessaly, Larissa.
    -In course: "Υ103 – Introduction to Programming", I helped students do their lab assignments in C language.


Industrial Experience

  • 16/11/2020 – 24/09/2021
    Electrical and Computer Engineer
    Municipal Water Supply & Sewerage Company of Volos (DEYAMB),
    -Section of Computerization and Informatics - IT support.

  • 01/07/2017 – 31/08/2017
    Internship - Software Engineer
    University General Hospital of Larissa, Section of Computers & Informatics,
    -Web page construction, using WordPress & php.