Andreas Merentitis

Dr. Andreas Merentitis received the B.Sc., M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, National Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA) in 2003, 2005, and 2010 respectively. He holds an award from the Greek Mathematical Society and received a scholarship as one of the two highest performing M.Sc. students in his year. Dr. Merentitis has worked as Senior Researcher at the NKUA and has participated in numerous European funded projects, as (sub-)workpackage leader of key activities. Between 2011-2015 he was Senior Data Scientist at AGT International. Between 2015-2107 he worked as Senior Data Scientist at Zalando SE. He is currently Head of Applied Data Science, OLX Group Berlin Hub. He has more than 30 publications in the thematic areas of machine learning, distributed systems, and remote sensing, including publications in flagship conferences and journals. He was awarded an IEEE Certificate of Appreciation as a core member of the team that won the first place in the “Best Classification Challenge” of the 2013 IEEE GRSS Data Fusion Contest. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and the IEEE Signal Processing Societies. He is a prize winner and has a master ranking in Kaggle.