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Basics

Name Vasilis Ethan Sarris
Label PhD Student
Email v.sarris@pitt.edu
Summary A Cypriot-American PhD Student in Computer Science with a wide variety of research interests

Work

  • 2023 - Present

    Graduate Teaching Assistant
    • Graded work and lead recitations for various courses in the Computer Science Department.
  • 2021 - 2021
    Research Assistant
    Kovashka Lab, University of Pittsburgh
    • Explored the effects of pre-processing the input of object recognition models (ResNet, AlexNet, etc.) in such a way that was more akin to the visual cortex.
    • Preformed domain generalization benchmarks on these models using the standard and modified inputs.
  • 2021 - Present
    Research Assistant
    Advanced Data Management Technologies Lab, University of Pittsburgh
    • Extended work in Indoor-Outdoor Navigation by creating and implementing multiple novel path finding algorithms.
    • Published multiple First-author papers on these novel algorithms.
  • 2019 - 2020
    Research Assistant
    Learning Imaging & Family Experience Lab, University of Pittsburgh
    • Developed a robust, user-friendly, graph-based fMRI analysis pipeline for the Lab's PhD Students.
    • Developed multiple web-based tasks for large-scale Psychology studies.
  • 2018 - 2018
    English Teacher
    東澳國民小 (Dong'ao Elementary), Nan'ao Township, Yilan County, Taiwan
    • Taught English to 100+ elementary school children grades 1st-5th.

Education

  • 2023 - Present
    PhD
    University of Pittsburgh
    Computer Science
    • Data Management Systems
    • CV Seminar
    • Design and Analysis of Algorithms
  • 2022 - 2023
    MS
    University of Pittsburgh
    Computer Science
    • WANs
    • Compiler Design
    • Data Mining
    • AI
    • HCI
    • IoT Seminar
  • 2019 - 2022
    BS
    University of Pittsburgh
    Computer Science
    • Data Structures
    • Algorithms
    • Systems Software
    • Operations Systems
    • Intro Computer Vision
    • Practical AI
    • Intro Compiler Design
    • Theory of Computation
    • Graph Theory
    • Linear Algebra
    • Calculus

Skills

Teaching
Data Structures / Algorithms (CS0445, CS1501)
Data Management (CS1555/2055)
Programming Languages
Python
C/C++
Java
Scala
Programming Langauges
Rust
Bash
SQL / NoSQL
Web Dev (JS / Python)

Languages

English
Native speaker
Greek
Beginner

Interests

Graph Algorithms
Data Structures
Systems Building