Athena Economides

External Lecturer

Research and Interests

Quantitative imaging in Neuropathology.
Computational microfluidics of blood flow.
Bayesian inference & Uncertainty Quantification.

Education

Ph.D., CSElab, ETH Zürich, 2020.
M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Cyprus, 2015.
B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, University of Cyprus, 2013.

Teaching

Teaching Fellow at Harvard University (ES123, Spring 2022).
Head TA: High Performance Computing for Science and Engineering II (Spring 2021).
TA: High Performance Computing for Science and Engineering I (2017-2019).
TA: Computational Methods for Engineering Applications (2015-2016).
TA: Engineering Tool III: Object oriented programming with C++ (Spring 2015).

Publications

2023

L. Amoudruz, A. Economides, G. Arampatzis, P. Koumoutsakos. “The stress-free state of human erythrocytes: data driven inference of a transferable RBC model”, Biophysical Journal, 2023. [PDF] [DOI]

2021

A. Economides, G. Arampatzis, D. Alexeev, S. Litvinov, L. Amoudruz, L. Kulakova, C. Papadimitriou, and P. Koumoutsakos, “Hierarchical bayesian uncertainty quantification for a model of the red blood cell,” Phys. Rev. Appl., vol. 15, iss. 3, 2021.
[BibTeX] [PDF] [DOI]

@article{economides2021a,
author = {Athena Economides and Georgios Arampatzis and Dmitry Alexeev and Sergey Litvinov and Lucas Amoudruz and Lina Kulakova and Costas Papadimitriou and Petros Koumoutsakos},
doi = {10.1103/physrevapplied.15.034062},
journal = {{Phys. Rev. Appl.}},
month = {mar},
number = {3},
publisher = {American Physical Society ({APS})},
title = {Hierarchical Bayesian Uncertainty Quantification for a Model of the Red Blood Cell},
url = {http://www.cse-lab.ethz.ch/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/economides2021a.pdf},
volume = {15},
year = {2021}
}

S. M. Martin, D. Wälchli, G. Arampatzis, A. E. Economides, P. Karnakov, and P. Koumoutsakos, “Korali: Efficient and scalable software framework for Bayesian uncertainty quantification and stochastic optimization,” Comput. Method. Appl. M., p. 114264, 2021.
[BibTeX] [PDF] [DOI]

@article{martin2021a,
author = {Sergio M. Martin and Daniel W\"alchli and Georgios Arampatzis and Athena E. Economides and Petr Karnakov and Petros Koumoutsakos},
doi = {10.1016/j.cma.2021.114264},
journal = {{Comput. Method. Appl. M.}},
month = {nov},
pages = {114264},
publisher = {Elsevier {BV}},
title = {{Korali: Efficient and scalable software framework for Bayesian uncertainty quantification and stochastic optimization}},
url = {http://www.cse-lab.ethz.ch/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/martin2021a.pdf},
year = {2021}
}

2020

D. Wälchli, S. M. Martin, A. Economides, L. Amoudruz, G. Arampatzis, X. Bian, and P. Koumoutsakos, “Load balancing in large scale bayesian inference,” in Proceedings of the platform for advanced scientific computing conference – PASC ’20, 2020.
[BibTeX] [PDF] [DOI]

@inproceedings{walchli2020a,
author = {Daniel W\"{a}lchli and Sergio M. Martin and Athena Economides and Lucas Amoudruz and George Arampatzis and Xin Bian and Petros Koumoutsakos},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference – {PASC} {\textquotesingle}20},
doi = {10.1145/3394277.3401849},
month = {jun},
publisher = {{ACM}},
title = {Load Balancing in Large Scale Bayesian Inference},
url = {http://www.cse-lab.ethz.ch/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/walchli2020a.pdf},
year = {2020}
}

2017

A. Economides, L. Amoudruz, S. Litvinov, D. Alexeev, S. Nizzero, P. E. Hadjidoukas, D. Rossinelli, and P. Koumoutsakos, “Towards the virtual rheometer,” in Proceedings of the platform for advanced scientific computing – PASC ’17, 2017.
[BibTeX] [PDF] [DOI]

@inproceedings{economides2017a,
author = {Athena Economides and Lucas Amoudruz and Sergey Litvinov and Dmitry Alexeev and Sara Nizzero and Panagiotis E. Hadjidoukas and Diego Rossinelli and Petros Koumoutsakos},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing - {PASC} {\textquotesingle}17},
doi = {10.1145/3093172.3093226},
publisher = {{ACM} Press},
title = {Towards the Virtual Rheometer},
url = {http://www.cse-lab.ethz.ch/wp-content/papercite-data/pdf/economides2017a.pdf},
year = {2017}
}

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