Chrysostomos Symvoulidis
PhD · Artificial Intelligence

Chrysostomos
Symvoulidis

AI Researcher and Technical Manager with experience in designing and developing AI-driven solutions in healthcare, smart cities, and distributed systems. Worked on research and innovation projects involving Cloud and Edge Computing, Health Information Exchange, AI medical imaging, Federated Learning, and intelligent digital platforms. Experienced in technical leadership, system architecture, product management, and AI services, including LLM applications and chatbots. Actively involved in European and national R&D projects, proposal writing, and technical coordination, focused on translating research into high-impact solutions.

Causal Discovery Causal Inference Cloud Computing Deep Learning Edge Computing Machine Learning
31+ Publications
8 R&D Projects
2 Best Paper Awards
9+ Years Experience
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Education

Degrees
2024
PhD in Artificial Intelligence
Dept. of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus
Advisor: Prof. Dimosthenis Kyriazis
2018
MSc in Big Data and Analytics
Dept. of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus
2016
BSc in Computer Science
Dept. of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus
Thesis

Design of causal and contextual information extraction and data enrichment methods, with emphasis on artificial intelligence-driven optimization algorithms for cloud and edge computing.

Causal Discovery Cloud Computing Edge Computing Deep Learning Optimization
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Work experience

2024.10 – today
Researcher | Technical Manager
Gruppo Maggioli SpA · Athens, Greece
2022.08 – today
Researcher | Technical Manager
Telesto Technologies Ltd. · Athens, Greece
2022.05 – 2024.10
Researcher | Technical Coordinator
Thridium Ltd. · London, UK
2019.06 – 2022.11
Research Associate
BYTE Computer S.A. · Athens, Greece
2019.01 – 2021.12
Research Associate
SingularLogic S.A. · Athens, Greece
2017.06 – 2020.10
Research Associate
University of Piraeus · Piraeus, Greece
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Research projects

Active
EMBRACE
Pan-European Management of Biological toxin incidents through standardisation initiatives for Crisis response Enhancement
2024.10 – today · Telesto Technologies Ltd.
Active
SEARCH
Synthetic Healthcare Data Governance Hub
2024.10 – today · Gruppo Maggioli SpA
Completed
ONELAB
Orchestrating next-generation mobile modular laboratories for pandemic monitoring preparedness
2022.10 – 2025.12 · Telesto Technologies Ltd.
Completed
INCISIVE
Multimodal AI-based toolbox and interoperable health imaging repository for cancer diagnosis, prediction and follow-up
2020.10 – 2024.04 · Thridium Ltd.
Completed
InteropEHRate
Interoperable Electronic Health Records at user edge
2019.01 – 2022.09 · BYTE Computer S.A.
Completed
BigDataStack
High-performance data-centric stack for big data applications and operations
2018.01 – 2020.12 · SingularLogic S.A.
Completed
LeADS
Legality attentive data scientists
2022.04 – 2022.06 · BYTE Computer S.A.
Completed
MATILDA
Holistic framework for 5G-ready applications and network services over sliced programmable infrastructure
2017.06 – 2020.07 · University of Piraeus Research Centre
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Publications

Journal 2026
A three-tier AI-based approach for dynamic application placement in cloud–edge environments
E. Paraskevoulakou, C. Symvoulidis, P. Karamolegkos, G. Kousiouris, D. Kyriazis
Future Generation Computer Systems, Elsevier [Link]
Journal 2026
Evaluation of the INCISIVE services in cancer imaging: a feasibility study
L. Zacharias, I. Hesso, R. Kayyali, C. Symvoulidis, et al.
Seminars in Oncology Nursing, Elsevier [Link]
Journal 2023
A user mobility-based data placement strategy in a hybrid cloud/edge environment using a causal-aware deep learning network
C. Symvoulidis, A. Kiourtis, G. Marinos, J. D. Totow Tom-Ata, G. Manias, A. Mavrogiorgou, D. Kyriazis
IEEE Transactions on Computers, IEEE [Link]
Journal 2023
Multilingual text categorization and sentiment analysis: a comparative analysis of multilingual approaches for classifying twitter data
G. Manias, A. Mavrogiorgou, A. Kiourtis, C. Symvoulidis, D. Kyriazis
Neural Computing and Applications, Springer [Link]
Journal 2023
Batch and streaming data ingestion towards creating holistic health records
A. Mavrogiorgou, A. Kiourtis, G. Manias, C. Symvoulidis, D. Kyriazis
Emerging Science Journal, Ital Publication [Link]
Journal 2023
Identity management standards: a literature review
A. Kiourtis, A. Giannetsos, C. Symvoulidis, et al.
Computer and Informatics, DergiPark [Link]
Journal 2022
The holistic perspective of the INCISIVE project — artificial intelligence in screening mammography
I. Lazic, F. Agullo, C. Symvoulidis, et al.
Applied Sciences, MDPI [Link]
Journal 2022
HealthFetch: an influence-based, context-aware prefetch scheme in citizen-centered health storage clouds
C. Symvoulidis, G. Marinos, A. Kiourtis, A. Mavrogiorgou, D. Kyriazis
Future Internet, MDPI [Link]
Book chapter 2025
Architectures and platforms for trustworthy AI: cloud technologies and federated approaches
A. Gutierrez-Torre, F. Agulló López, P. Laras, C. Symvoulidis
Trustworthy AI in Cancer Imaging Research (pp. 169–194), Springer [Link]
Conference 2024
Enhancing international security: a secure biometric data sharing framework for cross-border crime and terrorism prevention
G. Benos, K. Koutsoukos, C. Symvoulidis, D. Drakoulis
IEEE BigData 2024 [Link]
Conference 2024
A secure and trustworthy biometric data ecosystem for cross-border suspect identification
K. Kyriakou, A. Apostolaras, C. Symvoulidis, et al.
IEEE BigData 2024 [Link]
Conference 2024
Exploring machine learning algorithms for infection detection using GC-IMS data: a preliminary study
C. Sardianos, C. Symvoulidis, M. Schloegl, I. Varlamis, G. T. Papadopoulos
EEITE 2024 [Link]
Conference 2024
Dynamic resource allocation on the edge: a causal and contextually-aware machine learning approach
C. Symvoulidis, E. Paraskevoulakou, A. Kiourtis, A. Mavrogiorgou, D. Kyriazis
IntelliSys 2024 [Link]
Conference 2024🏆 Best paper
Enhancing cloud-based application component placement with AI-driven operations
E. Paraskevoulakou, J. D. Totow Tom-Ata, C. Symvoulidis, D. Kyriazis
IEEE CCWC 2024 [Link]
Conference 2023🏆 Best paper
Dynamic deployment prediction and configuration in hybrid cloud/edge computing environments using influence-based learning
C. Symvoulidis, A. Kiourtis, A. Mavrogiorgou, J. D. Totow Tom-Ata, G. Manias, D. Kyriazis
IEEE EECSI 2023 [Link]
Conference 2023
Polymorphic cloud application design assisted by open source software classification
J. D. Totow Tom-Ata, K. Kritikos, C. Symvoulidis, D. Kyriazis
CECCC 2023 [Link]
Conference 2023
A practical guide to green computing for manufacturers, businesses, and individuals
A. Kiourtis, A. Mavrogiorgou, G. Makridis, C. Symvoulidis, D. Kyriazis
FRUCT 2023 [Link]
Conference 2022
K-Medoids-Surv: a patients risk stratification algorithm considering censored data
G. Marinos, C. Symvoulidis, D. Kyriazis
ICAISC 2022 [Link]
Conference 2022
Electronic health records at people's hands across Europe: the InteropEHRate protocols
A. Kiourtis, A. Mavrogiorgou, C. Symvoulidis, et al.
pHealth 2022 [Link]
Conference 2022
Mobile anonymization and pseudonymization of structured health data for research
S. Dimopoulou, C. Symvoulidis, K. Koutsoukos, A. Kiourtis, A. Mavrogiorgou, D. Kyriazis
IEEE MobiSecServ 2022 [Link]
Conference 2022
Emergency health protocols supporting health data exchange, cloud storage, and indexing
K. Koutsoukos, C. Symvoulidis, A. Kiourtis, A. Mavrogiorgou, S. Dimopoulou, D. Kyriazis
HEALTHINF 2022 [Link]
Conference 2021
MICSurv: medical image clustering for survival risk group identification
G. Marinos, C. Symvoulidis, D. Kyriazis
IEEE BioSMART 2021 [Link]
Conference 2021
A health information exchange protocol supporting Bluetooth-based messages
A. Kiourtis, A. Graziani, A. Mavrogiorgou, C. Symvoulidis, K. Mavrogiorgos, D. Kyriazis
IEEE ICISAT 2021 [Link]
Conference 2021
Facilitating health information exchange in medical emergencies
C. Symvoulidis, A. Mavrogiorgou, A. Kiourtis, G. Marinos, D. Kyriazis
IEEE EHB 2021 [Link]
Conference 2021
Healthcare provision in the cloud: an EHR object store-based cloud used for emergency
C. Symvoulidis, A. Kiourtis, A. Mavrogiorgou, D. Kyriazis
HEALTHINF 2021 [Link]
Conference 2021
Indexing of cloud stored electronic health records for consented third party accessing
A. Kiourtis, A. Mavrogiorgou, C. Symvoulidis, C. Tsigkounis, D. Kyriazis
FRUCT 2021 [Link]
Conference 2021
Learning a generalized matrix from multi-graphs topologies towards microservices recommendations
I. Tsoumas, C. Symvoulidis, D. Kyriazis
IntelliSys 2020 [Link]
Conference 2019
Modelling 5G cloud-native applications by exploiting the service mesh paradigm
I. Tsoumas, C. Symvoulidis, D. Kyriazis, P. Gouvas, A. Zafeiropoulos, J. Melian, J. Sterle
EMCIS 2019 [Link]
Conference 2019
Towards the identification of context in 5G infrastructures
C. Symvoulidis, I. Tsoumas, D. Kyriazis
SAI Computing Conference 2019 [Link]
Conference 2019
An integrated SLA management framework in a 5G environment
M. Touloupou, E. Kapassa, C. Symvoulidis, P. Stavrianos, D. Kyriazis
IEEE ICIN 2019 [Link]
Conference 2018
Capturing the reliability of unknown devices in the IoT world
A. Mavrogiorgou, A. Kiourtis, C. Symvoulidis, D. Kyriazis
IEEE IoTSMS 2018 [Link]
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Teaching

Lecturing
2025 – 2026
Neural Networks & Deep Learning
MSc in Advanced Information Systems & MSc in Big Data and Analytics · University of Piraeus
Teaching assistant
2017 – 2023
DS-501 C Programming (Lab)
Dept. of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus
2019 – 2023
DS-512 Information Systems (Lab)
Dept. of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus
Final year project supervision
2023
D. Kozoni
"Comparative analysis of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) tools" · Undergraduate, University of Piraeus
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Awards & services

Awards
2024
🏆 Best paper
14th IEEE Annual Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC 2024)
2023
🏆 Best paper
10th IEEE International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Informatics (EECSI 2023)
Reviewer
Computer Communications Journal, Elsevier
Scientific Reports Journal, Springer Nature
Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE), Wiley
Trustworthy AI in Cancer Imaging Research, Springer Nature
International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science (CLOSER), INSTICC
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Skills & interests

Machine learning
TensorFlowKerasScikit-learnPandasNumPyMatplotlibSeaborn
Programming
PythonJavaJava for AndroidCR
Web & APIs
FlaskFastAPIStreamlitSpringRESTful APIsJWTPostman
Big data
HadoopSparkKafkaFlink
Cloud & DevOps
DockerDocker ComposePrometheusGrafana
Databases
MySQLMongoDBMariaDBMS SQL ServerMinIO
Version control & IDEs
GitGitHubGitLabPyCharmVS Code
Languages
Greek (native)English (fluent)German (basic)
Interests
TravellingMusicMountain bikingTrail runningCrossFitMoviesGaming