Anastasis Katsos

Researcher

Work Experience

Orion Lab, National Technical University of Athens

Jun. 2024 – Present

Researcher | Athens, Greece

  • Research Focus: Domain Adaptation and Multi-Modal Fusion in Deep Learning for Remote Sensing Applications
  • Study distribution shifts across different domains and downstream tasks
  • Investigation of methods to enhance model robustness across different spatio-temporal domains

Beyond EO Center, National Observatory of Athens

Jul. 2019 – May 2024

Technical Team Leader | Athens, Greece

  • Technical Team Leader of the Copernicus Sentinel Hubs in Greece. Continuous monitoring of a large infrastructure (>100 VMs, >1PB storage) and root cause analysis of system issues. Implementation of corrective actions and documentation. Coordination of the team for daily activities and task assignments.
    Stack: Linux (Debian), Ansible, Python, Bash, PostgreSQL, Solr, Haproxy, TIG Stack, Git
  • Development of a fully automated system for the reception, processing and dissemination of remote sensing data (>5TB each month) from eight polar-orbiting earth-observation satellites.
    Stack: Linux (Debian), PostgreSQL, GDAL, Django, Nginx
  • Development of a fully automated system performing diachronic mapping of water bodies in selected river basins using satellite data. The produced digital maps are available freely to the end users.
    Stack: Linux (Debian), ESA SNAP, PyTorch, Django, GeoServer, Nginx

Education

National Technical University of Athens, School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering

Present

PhD Candidate | Athens, Greece

  • Research Focus: Domain Adaptation and Generalization in Deep Learning for Remote Sensing Applications

National Technical University of Athens, School of Rural, Surveying and Geoinformatics Engineering

Oct. 2022

MSc in Geoinformatics | Athens, Greece

  • Thesis: Automated water detection system using Sentinel-1 satellite data

Harokopio University of Athens, School of Digital Technology

Jul. 2020

BSc in Informatics and Telematics | Athens, Greece

  • Thesis: System Creation for Automated Reception and Process of Automatic Picture Transmission Signals from NOAA POES Satellites and Database Storing for Web-Based View