Last year, Maria Dimakopoulou managed to solve a problem that had been "trapped" in Intel processors for three years, resulting in her winning awards from Google and Intel.
"If I hadn't followed the school's courses closely for so many years, if I hadn't had my professors supporting me, I wouldn't have achieved so much. A significant part of what I have done is due to the people who taught me and nurtured me to do my best," says Maria Dimakopoulou, who just graduated last June from the NTUA (School of Electrical and Computer Engineering), but already has many impressive awards.
From her third year of school, in 2012, she began working during the summer months in a Google in Paris, alongside 40-something specialized researchers from all over the world. She worked on advanced projects and last year managed to find the solution to a problem that had remained unsolved for three years on Intel processors, resulting in her winning honorary awards from Google and Intel. “You don’t suddenly go to Google and become smart. I had very dynamic professors with a desire to be excellent in their field internationally. The quality of the courses and the education offered was decisive for my performance.”
Her already rich resume includes other awards. Such as the international honorary award and the Anita Borg Memorial scholarship from Google for excellence in computer science and technology. After solving the Intel problem, she was invited to speak at a conference at CERN, while last summer she was in Silicon Valley, USA, in a program under the auspices of NASA and Google, where she worked on nanotechnology and artificial intelligence.
In December, she leaves for New York, to work on the algorithms behind Google's advertising systems. "I wouldn't trade my studies for a university abroad. When I first entered the School, they told me I could go to any university I wanted. It was a conscious choice to stay here and the course vindicated me. This is an excellent school if you have the will to progress.".
Source: enikos.gr
