Data Scientist · AI Researcher · MBA Candidate
Marios
Vottas
Bridging AI with real-world business impact.

Data Scientist/AI Engineer specialising in NLP and Gen AI. Deployed Greece's first local zero-cost LLM in a IBM's CP4D. Published researcher at NCSR Demokritos. Currently pursuing a full-time MBA at the University of Piraeus — elected Vice-President of the class.

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3+
Years in AI/DS
6+
AI Models in prod.
1st
Local LLM in GR banking
IEEE
Published — CBMS 2025
Work History
Data Scientist
Alpha Bank
Oct '23 – Present
  • Deployed Greece's first local zero-cost Llama-based LLM inside IBM's Cloud Pak for Data (CP4D) — a first-of-its-kind achievement in Greek banking. Allowed experimentation, development without cost and was the first step towards our team's focus on GenAI applications.
  • Designed and implemented an automated AI reporting system delivering weekly customer complaint insights to C-Level executives and quarterly reports to the Executive Committee (ExCo).
  • Developed 5 production-grade models currently used. Models used for sentiment analysis both with Neural Networks and GenAI, text summarization using LLMs, test classification utilizing a combination of Neural Networks, LLMs and business rules.
  • Migrated, automated and currently maintaining 20+ production-level ML models on cloud infrastructure.
  • Currently focusing in development of AI Agents using Microsoft's Copilot Studio.
LLMsPythonNLPIBM CP4DAI Agents
Independent Researcher
NCSR Demokritos
Jan '25 – Present
  • Published peer-reviewed research on drug-drug interaction (DDI) prediction for lung cancer at IEEE CBMS 2025.
  • Chosen as one of the best papers and called for publishing a special issue version.
  • Built a disease-specific biomedical knowledge graph (375,707 nodes, 17.9M relationships) from PubMed and MEDLINE.
  • Developed a path-analysis ML approach (BLGPA) outperforming all graph embedding baselines (TransE, HoLE, RESCAL, DistMult).
Knowledge GraphsNLPBiomedical AINeo4jscikit-learn
Business Intelligence Engineer
IntTrust S.A.
Jul '23 – Sep '23
  • Assisted in the development of the Data Warehouse for Credia Bank (formerly Attica Bank), and for GasLog (shipping company).
  • Developed a PowerBI report for water monitoring at Metlen's White Houses.
Data WarehousePowerBISQL
Research & Informatics Soldier
Greek Military
Sep '22 – Jun '23
  • Helpdesk and sysadmin duties for a military Brigade and Military Hospital.
  • Trained doctors and nurses on a new clinical software system during nationwide healthcare digital transformation rollout.
SysadminTrainingDigital Transformation
Capabilities
AI / NLP
LLMs & Prompt Eng.
Neural Networks
NLP / Transformers
TensorFlow / Keras
AI Agents
Engineering
Python
SQL & NoSQL
IBM CP4D
Neo4j
Business
Strategy
Digital Transformation
Finance & Operations
Leadership
Languages
Greek
English
Featured Projects
Medical Image Classification
GitHub ↗

Deep learning system for automated medical image diagnosis. Classifies brain MRIs for tumour detection and chest X-rays for pneumonia screening. Built with convolutional neural networks to assist clinical decision-making.

CNNTensorFlowMedical AIImage Classification
DDI Prediction — Knowledge Graph
GitHub ↗

End-to-end system for predicting drug-drug interactions using a biomedical literature knowledge graph. Outperforms graph embedding baselines. Includes a real-world list of novel DDI predictions not yet documented in DrugBank.

Knowledge GraphsNeo4jRandom ForestSMOTE
Education
MBA — Full-time
University of Piraeus
Sep '25 – Present
★ Vice-President of the class
Strategy · Digital Transformation · Finance · Operations · Marketing
MSc in Data Science
NCSR Demokritos & University of Peloponnese
Sep '21 – Dec '24
Thesis: Drug-Drug Interaction Multiclass Prediction on Biomedical Literature Knowledge Graphs

Deep Learning · ML · NoSQL/SQL · AI Ethics · XAI
BSc in Informatics & Telecommunications
University of Peloponnese
Sep '16 – Sep '21
Thesis: Maritime Data Collection and Storage System

Python · ElasticSearch · Data Mining · Data Structures · C
Publications
Predicting Multi-Class Drug-Drug Interactions Using a Disease-Specific Knowledge Graph
Marios Vottas, Fotis Aisopos, Konstantinos Bougiatiotis, Anastasia Krithara
IEEE CBMS 2025 — Computer-Based Medical Systems · DOI: 10.1109/CBMS65348.2025.00157

Constructs a lung-cancer-specific biomedical knowledge graph (375K nodes, 17.9M relationships) from PubMed/MEDLINE to predict five classes of drug-drug interactions. A path-analysis ML approach (BLGPA) outperforms TransE, HoLE, RESCAL and DistMult graph embeddings. Funded by EU Horizon 2020 SIMPATHIC project.

DOI ↗ Code ↗ ● IEEE published
Certifications
TensorFlow for Deep Learning Bootcamp
Udemy
Certificate No: UC-547dc983-9c92-4641-a1eb-6c87ae16f513
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Python, LLMs & NLP Specialisations
Udemy
18 courses · Topics: Python, LLMs, NLP, ML, Deep Learning
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