Charikleia Gklava

Worked closely with the Director of Technology and lead part of the technology function. I am responsible for ensuring that delivery performance and quality standards are met both from a people and product perspective.

• Lead one engineering team of approximately 10 to 14 people.

• Partner with peers and key stakeholders within the same product or from different products, to ensure high standards of product delivery, quality and performance, flag potential obstacles and implement process improvements.

• Communication with partners and stakeholders such as product management.

• Negotiation with stakeholders, presentation of results and deliverables.

• Prioritize, align and enable the team to deliver high quality in a timely manner. Remove impediments that prevent teams from reaching their goals.

• Maintain the technology roadmap and also manage the potential tech debt.

• Investigate new technologies and methodologies to expedite development and stay up-to-date with the latest trends.

• Actively contribute in Innovation activities, foster innovation, encourage out-of-the box thinking.

• Provide the team with management/leadership and mentorship.

• Foster culture of continuous employee growth while ensuring high retention and engagement.

Research Engineer/ Machine Learning The aim of this project was to develop a computational framework which will provide critical biological insights into the mechanism driving bone development and allow the exploration to hypothesis development process by the end user/ and generate hypothesis leading to further experimental investigation.

• Define efficient machine learning models and design approaches for different biological challenges.

• Exploratory data analysis and preprocessing of high- throughput data, including transcriptomics, genomics and single cell RNA-Seq data. Cleansing techniques to ensure high-quality datasets for model training and testing.

• Develop, train and fine tune selected models using R and python and other relevant tools and technologies. • Develop and implement mechanism for benchmarking and model evaluation.

• Transform data into biological insights using machine learning methods and support hypothesis driven exploration.

• Regular technical presentations to diverse stakeholders.

Research in the context of Inspector project and Integrated Informatics platform for mass spectrometry based protein assays. The goal of this project was to create in-silico tools that would predict the behavior of the peptides a priori based on sequence information.
• Development of data mining, machine learning, inference and search algorithms based on challenges inspired by experimental computational biology. Performed methods such as feature extraction, time series prediction and decision trees algorithms.
• Analyze/ Validate/ Optimize the performance of these techniques both theoretically and experimentally.
• Closely interact and collaborate with the consortium partners of the Inspector project.

As part of the graduate program I have worked as a graduate Development Engineer with Texas Instruments, where I obtained a thorough understanding of embedded real time
systems and a first class working experience of software debugging target hardware. The part that I have mostly benefited from while working in a multinational company, is that not only I have advanced my technical knowledge but also I have appreciated the value of good communication skills needed in everyday work and the importance of a professional attitude when working as part of a team.
• Research, design and development of video and image algorithms in C software and Matlab for Texas Instruments TMS320DM642 digital signal processor silicon chip for use in video security applications.
• Real Time Analysis and implementation of a graphical interface (GUI).
• Preparation of technical talk describing the key points and the obstacles of the project for knowledge transfer.
• I have worked with Texas Instruments Digital Audio Broadcast marketing team liaising with TI’S DAB costumers that are developing DAB radios and Hi-Fi systems regarding improvements to be made to their products before released to market. I was involved in the design and implementation of Tests.