Since I was a kid, I scored first in the Greek national exams, went into Electrical and Computer Engineering, and then got got into a PhD at Boston University.
Your organization field and mission:
AI consulting and engineering. We build production AI systems for companies – LLM apps, agents, RAG pipelines – and help engineering teams figure out the hard technical stuff themselves.
Please tell us briefly about your role in the company / at your organization:
I do everything. Architecture, code, client calls, hiring decisions. It’s a small firm so I’m the one building the systems and also the one scoping the projects and advising the teams.
Your interest in STEM
My parents, they were both STEM PhDs and amazing as professionals and as human beings.
Your studies
Moving to Boston alone at 25 for a PhD. Imposter syndrome, being one of few women in my cohort, research progress being very slow, and then COVID hit at the 3rd year of my program and I also changed advisor and research area at the same time. The biggest lesson was that persistence and resilience matters for everything.
Do not be afraid to take the hard classes, and find mentors and peers in both genders in all stages of your career.
You at work
We do knowledge transfer by default – every engagement ends with the team being able to run things without us. We work remotely with teams globally, which removes geographic barriers. And as a woman-founded AI company, I actively mentor women entering the field.
Working on Google Translate’s on-device models – millions of people use that daily. And building my own company from a PhD.
Your point of view
One person with the right AI tools can now build what used to take a team often. That changes things for women everywhere, especially outside of the usual tech hubs.
More than ever today, AI is not just math and theory but the ability to have a critical mind and make decisions. Hence, being in tech needs creativity, judgment, and people who ask “should we?” not just “can we?
Women in AI leadership becoming boring – not newsworthy, just normal. And better STEM pipelines reaching Southern and Eastern Europe, where the talent exists but the access doesn’t.
To finish with
Honesty, craftsmanship, independence, sharing what I know.
Scaling the company without losing depth. Staying technical while growing as a business owner. Finding the balance between client work and building my own products.
Running a firm with its own AI products and having helped a real number of women get into technical AI roles. And ideally working on things I care deeply about beyond just the technology itself.
The current activity has been implemented in the framework of the Project: Code4Europe,
GA Number: 101158834. Official project website : https://codeweek.eu/