Efstathia Soufleri
SHORT BIO
| Efstathia Soufleri is a postdoctoral fellow with the Archimedes Unit at the Athena Research Center, working under Prof. Sophia Ananiadou. She earned her Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Purdue University, USA, specializing in Efficient and Privacy-Preserving Machine Learning Algorithms under the guidance of Prof. Kaushik Roy. Her research contributions span across the Center for the Co-Design of Cognitive Systems (COCOSYS) and the Center for Brain-inspired Computing (C-BRIC), where she focused on privacy-preserving machine learning and multimodal large language models (LLMs). Efstathia's work has been published in prominent venues such as ICML, NeurIPS, TMLR, and DATE, with several co-authored papers in the fields of efficient machine learning and privacy. She also holds a Master of Science in Computer Science from the University of Thessaly, where she developed efficient algorithms for video compression. Her academic journey began with a Bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, which she completed in just 3.5 years, graduating with honors. In recognition of her outstanding academic performance, Efstathia has received numerous awards, including the Gerondelis Foundation Award for Academic Excellence, the Academic Excellence Scholarship from the Greek State Scholarships Foundation, and the distinction of being named Valedictorian at the University of Thessaly. |
