Christos Ioannidis is a Research Software Engineer at Starttech, where his work spans AI and software development, chiefly DreamTimetable, a platform that lifts the burden of timetable creation off schools and frees teachers to focus on teaching, which he has taken from concept to fruition, drawing on a multidisciplinary skillset spanning engineering, design, and product direction. He holds an MEng in Computer Engineering from the Technical University of Crete (ECE/TUC). His interests include machine learning, mobile and game development, and UX/UI design, and he maintains eShadow LCE, an open-source AI-powered digital shadow puppet platform for real-time collaborative storytelling. Outside of work he is a certified speaker of Japanese (日本語能力試験 N1級, JLPT N1) and Mandarin (汉语水平考试 五级, HSK 5), and spends his time composing music, painting, designing, and dancing.
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