I’m a London based designer, researcher, and entrepreneur. I’m interested in the boundary-muddlings of information, computation, minds and nature. Email is always open to ethersamplers, epistemic humorists, and ungoogleable souls at eirinimalliaraki@gmail.com.
Education
2016-2018
MSc (Distinction) Innovation Design Engineering, Imperial College London
MA Innovation Design Engineering, Royal College of Art, London
MA Innovation Design Engineering, Royal College of Art, London
2017
Summer School in Speculative and Critical Design, London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London
2008-2013
BSc in Finance, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece
Professional Experience
Apr 2021- Today
Systems Architect & Designer, Centre for Collective Intelligence Design, Nesta, UK
Jun 2021- Today
Assessor, Innovate UK
Jan 2019- Mar 2021
Project Development Manager, Alan Turing Institute, London, UK
Dec 20- Mar 2021
Innovation Researcher, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, CH
Oct 2018- Today
Digital, data & design consultant. Clients include the National Lottery Community Fund (UK) and Dovetail Labs (US)
Summer 2018
Research Intern, Human Experience and Design Group, Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK
2017
Researcher & Designer, Morphological Computation Lab, Imperial College, London, UK
2017
Teaching Assistant at the Product Management Course, General Assembly, London, UK
2014-2017
Founder and Director, Filisia Interfaces Ltd, London, UK
2013
Financial Officer in Healthcare Economics, Euromedica SA, Athens, Greece
Publications & Articles
“Spatial Finance: Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing World”, EFI Insight-Finance by the World Bank and WWF, Washington DC, 2020.
AI and Climate Change: The Promise, the Perils and Pillars for Action, 𝘉𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘩 magazine supported by EIT Climate KIC, Mozilla Foundation, Climate Action Tech, and the Green Web Foundation, 2020
Analysis of COVID-19 Conspiracy Tribes Across Instagram, TikTok, Telegram and YouTube, Digital Methods Summer school, the University of Amsterdam, June 2020
Malliaraki, E., 2018, March. Social interaction with drones using human emotion recognition. In Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 187-188).
Vassos, S., Malliaraki, E., dal Falco, F., Di Maggio, J., Massimetti, M., Nocentini, M.G. and Testa, A., 2016, November. Art-bots: Toward chat-based conversational experiences in museums. In International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (pp. 433-437). Springer, Cham.
Exhibitions
2018
Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven, NL
Venice Biennale for Architecture, IT
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
Dubai Design Week, Global Grad Show, Dubai
London Design Festival, Victoria & Albert Museum
Venice Biennale for Architecture, IT
Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam, NL
Dubai Design Week, Global Grad Show, Dubai
London Design Festival, Victoria & Albert Museum
2017
Re:publica Festival, Thessaloniki, GR
London Mini Maker Faire, London
London Mini Maker Faire, London
2016
SXSW Interactive, Austin, TX
Distinctions
2013-14
Clinton Global Initiative University Fellow
2013
Delegate at the Entrepreneurship Bootcamp, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Talks
2019
“Minding the Gap: Between Fairness and Ethics” workshop, Neurips 2019, Vancouver
“Greening Cities Symposium”, hosted by BIOVEINS, 2019, Paris France
“Greening Cities Symposium”, hosted by BIOVEINS, 2019, Paris France
Awards
2017
Best ICT for Special Education, BETT Awards, London
2016
Best Health and Social Care Technology by IoTUK Boost, Digital Catapult
Emerge Education Accelerator Alumna, London
Tech For Good Award Finalists by BT and AbilityNet
Tech For Good Award Finalists by BT and AbilityNet
2014
Winners of the Social Innovation Tournament, European Investment Bank
Social Impact Award Winners by the Impact Hub Innovation in Access to Healthcare award, Ashoka Changemakers
Sirius Programme Alumna, UK Trade and Investment
Social Impact Award Winners by the Impact Hub Innovation in Access to Healthcare award, Ashoka Changemakers
Sirius Programme Alumna, UK Trade and Investment
Press
Augmented Nature
Social Drones
Fast CoDesign, Prosthetic Knowledge, Wired, Deutsche Welle, Engadget, Gizmodo, PSFK, Best Video at the Human-Robot Interaction Conference 2018, IEEE Spectrum
Filisia