EIRINI MALLIARAKI
ABOUT
eirinimalliaraki@gmail.com
Twitter, Linkedin, Substack
Technologist, researcher, and former founder. I build tools, programmes, and infrastructure at the intersection of AI, frontier science, and public-good innovation. I trained as a design engineer at Imperial College London and the Royal College of Art. Before that, a BSc in Finance from the Athens University of Economics and Business.
Three preoccupations have shaped the past decade: how intelligence emerges and travels across minds, machines, and ecosystems; what infrastructure a field needs to translate knowledge into action; and what it means to build systems that regenerate rather than extract. I've pursued all three — across startups, research labs, national AI institutes, and philanthropy.
I’m based in London, and my email is always open to ethersamplers, epistemic humorists, and ungoogleable souls.
Other curiosities: Complex systems & memetic engineering · Extended cognition · Theorising entanglement · Radical social futures · New learning environments · Community praxis · The Arctic · Soulmaking Dharma · Planetarity · Post-human design · Collective imagination · The surreal · Science Roadmapping
CV
COSMO BY FILISIA (CO-FOUNDER)
Founder and director of edtech/IoT startup company that works in the intersection of learning, design and the arts. Our first product is Cosmo. filisia.com
2014-2017
DESCRIPTION
Filisia is a multi-award-winning company that reimagines play and therapy for early-year learners and people with additional needs. Our first product is Cosmo, a platform of interactive IoT devices, iPad applications and data analytics tools used in education and elderly care settings. Cosmo also collects and reports data on users’ abilities, offering a comprehensive data-driven approach to therapy.
Cosmo comprises modular, dynamic hardware controllers and a software platform with interactive software exercises. The exercises help train cognitive, communication and motor skills through games and musical expression. Therapists and educators can select among various interactions that support the development of: Joint Attention, Turn Taking, Choice Making, Collaboration, Motor Skills, Language, Waiting, Transitions, Storytelling, Executive Function, Sensory Awareness.
Cosmo has been co-designed with 200+ special educators, therapists, students and parents. It is currently being used by 10,000 children & adults in over 1,000 schools, hospitals and therapy centres in 26 countries across Europe, Asia, the US and Australia.
Since 2014, as a director, I’ve helped raise £600k in venture and grant funding, supported product development, and helped set the vision, strategy, and business goals with my co-founders and advisors. I’ve worked with software, electronics, and mechanical engineers, as well as parents, therapists, doctors, teachers, and users throughout the product research and development phase. I undertook several parts of product development, from need finding to early prototyping, feature setting, validation of product-market fit, beta testing, and designing the business and pricing model.
Awards & DistinctionsBest ICT for Special Education, BETT Awards, 2017
Best Health and Social Care Technology by IoTUK Boost, Digital Catapult and Cambridge Wireless in the UK, 2016
Emerge Education Accelerator Alumni, 2016
Tech For Good Award Finalists by BT and AbilityNet, 2016
Clinton Global Initiative University Fellows, 2014-2015
Winners of the Social Innovation Tournament, European Investment Bank, 2014
Social Impact Award Winners by the Impact Hub Greece, 2014
Innovation in Access to Healthcare, Ashoka Changemakers, 2014
Sirius Programme Alumni, UK Trade and Investment, 2014
Partners
University of Birmingham, School of Education
Goldsmiths University of London, "Music, Mind and the Brain"
UK Trade and Investment
Talks and Exhibitions
Exhibitions at lnnovate2015, Connected Health Conference London 2015, Brain Injuries Technologies Think Tank Cambridge University 2015, BETT Show 2017, THLON# 25 Interaction Design in Special Education, SXSW Interactive 2016, London Mini Maker Faire 2017, Cambridge Science Festival 2018
In the press
Huffington Post, Forbes