Aris Tsilifonis holds a Bachelor’s degree in Informatics and Telecommunications from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, specializing in Data Science and Knowledge Management. During his final undergraduate year at NKUA, he completed a three-month BSc thesis under the supervision of Prof. Panagiotis Stamatopoulos. His dissertation focused on Genetic Algorithms, specifically the implementation of the Sine Cosine Algorithm (SCA) and its variants to solve the tension-compression spring design problem.

Currently, Aris is enrolled in an inter-institutional Master’s program at the University of Piraeus and the National Center of Scientific Research Demokritos, pursuing a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence. In his final academic year, he is actively working on his master’s thesis under the supervision of Prof. Georgios Vouros. The topic of his thesis is Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Diffusion Models.