Marilena Lemonari is a PhD student at the Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus.  During the first 3 years of her PhD, Marilena was an Early-Stage Researcher (ESR) in the Marie-Sklodowska Curie Horizon  2020 Project CLIPE, during which she completed 3-month secondments at Inria Research Centre (Rennes, France), Universitat Politecnia de Catalunya (Barcelona, Spain), and Golaem (Rennes, France).  Marilena received a BSc in Mathermatics (First Class) at the University of Nottingham, and an MSc in Machine Learning (Distinction) from University College London (UCL).  Her main research interests include topics in machine learning, crowd simulation, and control.