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Personal profile
Personal Statement
Tackling climate change with the use of interpretable and explainable Deep Learning and Artificial Intelligence.
Co-design of information extraction methods to meet utility, privacy and trust requirements in energy networks.
Currently working on:
I. JED-AI project: Justice, Energy, Demand flexibility and AI for Sustainability (UKRI Cross Research Council Resp Mode).
II. Digital Dairy Chain: AI-driven energy management for the dairy sector.
III. Developing Non-Intrusive Load Monitoring solutions for residential end-customers and tariff literacy programmes in collaboration with Hugo Technologies Ltd.
IV. Non-traction rail decarbonisation through improved, AI-driven energy management and fault detection.
Former Marie Skłodowska-Curie ITN Early Stage Resarcher, part of the Horizon2020 GECKO project. (Oct 2021 - Dec 2024).
Research Interests
- Smart meter energy analytics, including load disaggregation, prediction and profiling
- Non-intrusive Load Monitoring, residential and commercial
- Forecasting elecctricity supply and demand
- Improving scheduling and flexible demand
- Decarbonisiation of the agricultural and dairy sector
- Electric vehicles
- Building optimisation
- Predicting carbon price in markets
- Climate investment
Teaching Interests
EE106: Engineering Desing For Software Development - Python programming (1st Year, 1st & 2nd Semester)
EE320: Signals And Communications Systems
EE470: Information Transmission And Security
EE579: Advanced Microcontroller Applications
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Doctor of Philosophy, Complex mixed-methods research design approaches for data mining to meet utility and trust requirements for three-phase energy end-use customers, Electronic And Electrical Engineering
1 Oct 2021 → 19 May 2025
Award Date: 19 May 2025
Master in Science, Master in Accounting and Finance (Major: Finance), School of Business Administration, University of Macedonia
Oct 2019 → Dec 2020
Award Date: 21 Dec 2020
Master in Science, Dipl.-Ing. (Integrated MSc) - Electrical and Computer Engineering (Major: Telecommunications), Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Sept 2014 → Jul 2019
Award Date: 19 Jul 2019
External positions
Full Member, Technical Chamber of Greece
1 Nov 2019 → …
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Projects
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Digital Dairy Chain Innovation Voucher: An AI data-driven reporting dashboard for the dairy sector
Stankovic, L. (Principal Investigator), Stankovic, V. (Co-investigator) & Vavouris, A. (Researcher)
1/04/25 → 30/06/25
Project: Knowledge Exchange
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Digital Dairy Chain Innovation Voucher: Project Drum - How End Farm, community led RES surplus energy export potential and methane/gas production for self-consumption/export
Stankovic, L. (Principal Investigator), Stankovic, V. (Co-investigator) & Vavouris, A. (Researcher)
27/06/24 → 31/12/24
Project: Knowledge Exchange
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FIELD: a comprehensive FarmIng Electrical LoaD measurements dataset from 30 three-phase dairy farms in Germany
Vavouris, A., Stankovic, L., Stankovic, V. & Shi, J., 19 Nov 2025, In: Scientific Data. 12, 10 p., 1830.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A non-intrusive load monitoring-enabled framework for load scheduling in the dairy industry
Vavouris, A., Stankovic, L. & Stankovic, V., 15 Nov 2025, In: Applied Energy. 398, 16 p., 126456.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile1 Citation (Scopus)12 Downloads (Pure)
Datasets
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Smart meter electricity of a Household in Germany with Electric Vehicle Charging Annotation
Vavouris, A. (Creator), Stankovic, L. (Supervisor) & Stankovic, V. (Supervisor), University of Strathclyde, 29 Aug 2022
DOI: 10.15129/c41a6a02-5df5-4ed7-b8e6-6488895d43f7
Dataset
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Appliance Phase Identification on ECO Dataset
Vavouris, A. (Creator), Stankovic, L. (Supervisor) & Stankovic, V. (Supervisor), University of Strathclyde, 6 Oct 2022
DOI: 10.15129/deddd9a7-0cff-4db2-8478-42abc93fba9f
Dataset
Thesis
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Complex mixed-methods research design approaches for data mining to meet utility and trust requirements for three-phase energy end-use customers
Vavouris, A. (Author), Stankovic, L. (Supervisor) & Stankovic, V. (Supervisor), 19 May 2025Student thesis: Doctoral Thesis
Prizes
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Dumfries and Galloway Chamber of Commerce Net Zero Award
Vavouris, A. (Recipient), Stankovic, L. (Recipient), Stankovic, V. (Recipient), Mirfattahi, R. (Recipient) & Murray, P. (Recipient), 6 Jun 2025
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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Images of Research 2024: Capturing Collaboration Category Award
Vavouris, A. (Recipient), 30 Apr 2024
Prize: Prize (including medals and awards)
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A water walk to the Falls of the Clyde, Scotland
Bonner, J. (Host), Fonseca, L. (Participant), Mueller, T. (Participant), Vavouris, A. (Participant) & Donati, G. (Participant)
29 Nov 2025Activity: Public Engagement and Outreach › Public Events
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Empowering tenants, Enhancing Lives: Housing associations and the future of energy advice
Dhesi, B. (Invited speaker), Stankovic, L. (Invited speaker), Stankovic, V. (Invited speaker) & Vavouris, A. (Invited speaker)
26 Jun 2025Activity: Talk or Presentation › Invited talk