Dare to Data

I founded Dare to Data to formalize and structure the relationships I have with some of the world's leading companies to consult, support and empower them in their data and AI journey.

Current and past clients include PepsiCo, PUMA, Whirlpool, Nitto, Amazon Web Services, AtScale, EM360, O'Reilly Media, nexxworks, Aporia, Colquímica, DATAcated Plus, The Ravit Show, Ontotext, Growth Tribe, IBM / Databand, CoRise, SingleStore, Equals, Einblick, Impetus, Nexla, Starburst, ClearML, Nvidia, Dubai Future Foundation, ThriveDX, Global DIY-Summit, Afera, Prophecy, Listly, Dremio, amongst others.

Founder

LinkedIn

Over 65,000 learners to date! Building and teaching content as a part of the data course library, currently focused on empowering others to take full control of their data through the use of SQL as well as how to tap into the power of analytical thinking.

LinkedIn Learning Instructor

IE Business School

Delivering keynotes for the US, Spain, Canada, Portugal, Russia, Armenia, Georgia, Turkey, Azerbaijan, Jordan, Belgium, Luxembourg, Norway, Switzerland, Chile, Greece, Japan, South Korea, Nigeria, Egypt, Lebanon, China, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, France, Cyprus & more.

International Speaker

Graduate-level courses taught primarily within the MBA programs covering data and artificial intelligence topics, as well as personal branding workshops.

Adjunct Professor, Department of Information Systems and Technology

Leading the Corporate Masters program for Saudi Aramco employees.

Academic Director, Saudi Aramco Master in Business Analytics and Big Data

Leading the online Executive program which explores the range of possibilities offered by using new technologies and aligning digital strategy with general strategy in a company.

Academic Director, Digital Strategy and New Technologies Executive Program

Porto Business School

Graduate and executive level courses taught in business strategy for data and artificial intelligence.

Adjunct Professor

ISDI

Launched, continue to coordinate and teach the Data & AI module within one of the flagship programs at ISDI - the Master in Internet Business in Madrid, Barcelona and online.

Data & AI Module Program Manager

Regularly lecturing in advanced analytics topics at the Masters level and Executive programs in ISDI, an international institution focused on digital transformation.

Lecturer

VN Campaign Partners

Partner

Google

Developing insights and tools to empower our teams to work smarter and our clients to get the most out of Waze Ads. Leading analytical studies and strategy across North America for some of our largest advertising verticals (Fuel, Auto Parts & Services) as well as non-endemic verticals such as Entertainment. Creating scalable data solutions via daily use of SQL, BigQuery, Looker, CARTO, GSheets.

Analytical Lead, Waze

As a part-time facilitator, teaching engineers & analysts how to apply statistical methods to big data problems (Hypothesis Testing, T-Tests, Multiple Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Centered Moving Average, Causal Impact, K-Means Clustering).

Master Faculty - Data Science I

Leading complex data projects, automation and optimization with our most advanced international clients cross-office.

Data Specialist

#IamRemarkable is an initiative empowering women & underrepresented groups to speak openly about their accomplishments in the workplace & beyond, thereby breaking modesty norms & glass ceilings. Workshops hosted for the UN World Tourism Organization, Amadeus, CARTO, IE Business School, LastMinute, Teleperformance, Google Campus - Digitalizadas.

#IamRemarkable Facilitator

Combining Google Search data with advanced analytics and Cloud tools to drive business impact. Working with a $xxx-million client portfolio.

Analytical Consultant

Nielsen

Maintaining data integrity and leading projects in data process optimization, as well as supporting a migration to Big Data technologies (Google Suite). Delivering both internal and external seminars and training courses around data topics.

Expert Engineer in Project Development and Big Data

Graduate Intern: Associate Systems Engineer

Graduate Fellow

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📍 Current resident of Málaga, Spain & native of Charlotte, North Carolina

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Greek-American currently living in Spain, helping companies harness the power of data. Driven analytics professional & strong supporter of lifelong learning. I hope to bring advanced data technologies to the masses & exploit the potentials of emerging technologies. I am bilingual & passionate about international relations. Avid reader (bibliophile) & traveler. With trips to 60+ countries & first-hand experience working in a variety of cultures & languages, I enjoy & thrive when working in an international environment.

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Alongside my corporate work, I am a regular international speaker supporting data analytics, emerging technologies & women in STEM. Some of my latest involvements include:
● Guest appearances on more than 30 podcasts such as SuperDataScience, Ken's Nearest Neighbors, How to Get An Analytics Job, Driven by Data, Humans of Data Science, Present Beyond Measure, LightsOnData & more.
● Interview features, guest lecturer, panelist and event host!
● Keynote speeches delivered regularly since 2018 across 15+ countries in-person, virtually spanning the globe, with audiences surpassing 1,000+. Top involvements include:
→ → The WPO Annual Conference 2022 in Montreal CA, "The Information Age: Digitized & Datafied"
→ → Bloom Tech Forum 2021, "Harnessing the Power of Data for a Better Tomorrow"
→ → The WPO Annual Conference 2021 in Nashville TN, “Data Science: A Double-Edged Sword"
→ → The World Knowledge Forum 2021, “The Information Age: Digitized & Datafied"
→ → The Global DIY-Summit 2021, "The Future of Retail: Data as a Differentiator"
→ → Africa Communications Week 2021, “The Shift toward Data-Driven Marketing & Communications” 
→ → DATAcated Conference 2021, “From zero to hero: a simple explanation of ML"
→ → DATAcated Conference 2020, “SQL isn't going anywhere"
→ → Quantic EMBA Conference 2020, “The Truth behind the Buzz- Emerging Data Technologies for the 21st Century"
→ → The Smart Future World Expo 2019 in Istanbul Turkey, "Harnessing the Power of Big Data"
→ → TechIE 2019 in Madrid Spain, "Big Data & ML Intro Workshop"
→ →  IE-UCOM Big Data Day 2018 in Yerevan Armenia, "Harnessing the Power of Big Data"

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For further opportunities (podcasts, events, etc.) in my interested fields, feel free to contact me directly.

The opinions stated here are my own, not those of my employers.

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Christina Stathopoulos, MSc

Confidential

• Conducted rigorous testing of Whisper AI across various languages, notably Arabic, ensuring robust performance and accuracy in diverse linguistic environments.
• Implemented a langchain connector enabling LLM-driven Cypher queries to a knowledge graph for efficient information discovery and retrieval.
• Developed an autoencoder model for anomaly detection, optimizing data analysis and facilitating actionable insights.
• Conducted comprehensive research on cutting-edge ML and NLP advancements to help inform and aid strategic product growth initiatives.

Senior Data Scientist

SharpestMinds

• Training candidates in the field of data science, with a focus on natural language processing (NLP), machine learning, and AI.
• Working closely with the leadership team to provide ongoing guidance and support to candidates.
• Mentoring and educating applicants from diverse academic backgrounds, and collaborating with them on industry-level projects, code reviews, and data challenges.
•Successfully trained, mentored and matched multiple candidates with data science positions that align with their skills and career goals.

Data Science Mentor - Advisor

grmc Advisory Services

•Utilized forecasting techniques to predict future market trends and demands for multinational residential, retail and hospitality clients, facilitating strategic business decisions.
•Developed customized demand and supply models for multinational clients in the retail and hospitality industries, considering seasonality, consumer behavior, and economic indicators.
•Performed comprehensive data analysis using advanced statistical methods to identify patterns, trends, and correlations in large datasets, yielding valuable insights.
•Delivered over 10 projects with detailed reports summarizing analysis findings, recommendations, sentiment analysis and actionable insights for clients and stakeholders.
• Conducted deep market research and competitor analysis to drive strategic planning.

Senior Data Scientist - Consultant

AuDeFi

• Led the creation of a course on Introduction to Cryptocurrencies and Blockchains.
• Effectively taught a non-technical cohort the fundamentals of cryptocurrency, investments, and blockchain, including conducting hands-on labs.
• Created knowledge content to help students accurately assess the risks of cryptocurrency investments.
• Demonstrated expertise in the field by delivering engaging lectures and facilitating interactive discussions on complex topics.

Cryptocurrency & Blockchain Instructor

OpenText

• Provided Global clients with reliable, professional, and high-value services in the field of Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics, and Data Science.
• Led the development of a Document Similarity Engine for Bank of International Settlements that successfully distinguished between Absolute and Near Duplicate documents with 92% accuracy.
•  Collaborated with Legal firms in NY to build taxonomies, ontologies, and NLP models that resulted in a 50% reduction in document review time for clients.
• Contributed to the development of a Q&A bot with sentiment analysis on Microsoft Azure that received over multiple queries from internal and external stakeholders.
• Utilized the OpenText Magellan product suite to deliver advanced analytics and machine learning capabilities to clients in various industries.

Data Scientist | Computational Linguist (Covid Lay-off)

Independent Consultant

• Supported researchers, academics, and startups in a variety of Arabic NLP-driven projects.
• Contributed to the development of and optimization of spam / misinformation detection models in Arabic to identify and combat bad actors on social media.

Data Scientist 

Morgan Stanley

• Led the design and optimization of surveillance models to identify suspicious and/or illegal behaviors such as money laundering, market manipulation, and illegal trading practices.
• Utilized techniques such as BERT, word2vec and tf-idf to extract meaningful insights from large, complex datasets and aid in fraud detection efforts.
• Feature engineered fraudulent profile models on different transactional levels, resulting in a 50% reduction in false positives.
• Utilized graph ML to build enterprise knowledge bases, enabling the efficient discovery of internal content between data points at scale.

Principal Data Scientist

Shutterstock

• My primary focus was on researching and building proof-of-concept (POC) models to demonstrate the potential improvements in computer vision using state-of-the-art machine learning (ML) and deep learning (DL) techniques.
• Contributed to computer vision research to optimize Reverse, Similar and Image Tagging API's, resulting in a 30% improvement in accuracy and speed.
• Utilized Postman and Swagger for API testing and documentation, streamlining the development and deployment process.
• Applied NLP models such as CNN's and RNN's to the image tagging API to improve search results on the consumer side at scale, resulting in a 50% increase in user satisfaction.

Data Scientist - Machine Learning Dev

Nexalogy

• Led a team of 5 in the development of NexaSecurity, a cutting-edge end-to-end machine learning product that analyzes real-time Twitter and social media content.
• Leveraged Spacy and Gensim to extract relevant named entities and produce real-time actionable reports for clients, using advanced NLP techniques in natural language processing and extractive summarization.
• Scaled the application to consume over 1 million tweets in real-time, reducing analysts' time spent analyzing social media content by 50%.
• Developed proof-of-concept models for detecting fake news in English, French, and Russian using Flask and advanced NLP techniques.

Lead Data Scientist - Product Owner - (Acquired by Datametrex AI.)

• Expertly consulted for various companies, improving data strategy and machine learning workflows.
• Pioneered the development of a rule-based chatbot for student onboarding, significantly reducing time spent at the Registrar.
• Developed a content-based recommendation engine for a major retailer, increasing upselling and cross-selling efforts.
• Conducted NLP research in the field of Arabic tweet classification and bot detection on social media.

Data Scientist

A seasoned Data Scientist with a strong focus on Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing (NLP) and a track record of delivering impactful solutions for diverse organizations. With over 7 years of experience, I've successfully led teams and projects that have harnessed AI and data science to drive innovation and enhance decision-making. 

My expertise extends from developing custom machine learning models to advancing NLP techniques and building AI-driven products. Committed to team development, life-long learning and contributing to team success.

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