Petros Tamvakis graduated with a bachelor degree in Natural Sciences from the Hellenic Open University in 2018, where he received a full scholarship for two years in a row and graduated 3rd in his class. In 2020, he received his first Masters of Science degree in Bioinformatics/Computational Biology from the National Kapodistrian University of Athens. In 2021, he received a second Masters degree in Data Science from the American College of Greece, where he got a Presidential scholarship. Since March 2021 he is a PhD candidate in the Computer Science department of Hellenic Open University with subject: “Developing new techniques for the solution of the frequent itemset mining problem”. Since June 2021, he is working as a scientific associate for Institute for Language and Speech Processing in Xanthi at Athena Research Centre, where he develops machine learning models and deploys them as backend services.

His research interests include among others: machine learning, machine vision, association rules analysis and bioinformatics.