Born and raised in Greece I was always interested in science and technology. I received my Bachelor of Sciences from Drexel University on human physiology and went on to do cancer research at UPENN. There, i got interested in bioinformatics and i taught myself how to code. Starting my PhD at UCSC in bioinformatics i immediately got immersed in the fascinated world of deep learning. I interested in applying deep learning on health care problems and in particular in drug response prediction.