Portrait of Christos Fragkathoulas

PhD Candidate · XAI · Fairness · Counterfactuals

Christos Fragkathoulas

PhD Candidate at the University of Ioannina and Archimedes / Athena Research Center, working on explainable AI, fairness auditing, counterfactual explanations.

Athens, Greece University of Ioannina Athena Research Center

Experience

PhD Fellow — Archimedes Unit / Athena Research Center

Athens, Greece

2023 — Present

Research on fairness auditing and explainability through counterfactual explanations across tabular and time-series models.

Research Visitor — LIPADE, Université Paris Cité

Paris, France

Oct — Dec 2025

Research visit at the Laboratory of Informatics Paris Descartes (LIPADE), hosted by Prof. Themis Palpanas.

Researcher — University of Ioannina & Pfizer CDI

Ioannina, Greece

Nov 2022 — Oct 2023

Developed ML and NLP tools to assess health misinformation on social media using graph analysis, feature extraction, statistical evaluation, and an interface for credibility metrics.

Publications

Talks

Invited Talk — Charles University

Prague, Czech Republic

Nov 6, 2025

Visiting seminar talk invited by Prof. Martin Holeňa (Faculty of Mathematics and Physics).

Education

PhD in Computer Science & Engineering

University of Ioannina, Greece

2023 — Present

Advisor: Prof. Evaggelia Pitoura. Research focus: XAI, fairness, and counterfactual explanations. Teaching assistant for database courses and supervision of diploma theses.

Integrated Master (BSc & MSc equivalent) in Computer Science & Engineering

University of Ioannina, Greece

2017 — 2022

Diploma Thesis: “Machine Learning Techniques on Relational Data” (Advisor: Prof. Evaggelia Pitoura).

Academic Service

Reviewer

ACM TIST, ECML-PKDD, ICDM

Volunteer

FAccT 2025, EDBT/ICDT 2023