Zoe Kotti

I’m a Software Engineer at DeepSea Technologies working on AI-powered decarbonization solutions for the shipping industry. Previously I was a Research Engineer at Delivery Hero working on AI-based recommender systems and their performance analytics.

I also hold a PhD in Software Engineering, AI and Business Analytics from the Department of Management Science and Technology, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece. My research interests include AI and software engineering.

Selected publications

arXiv ’25

The Fools are Certain; the Wise are Doubtful: Exploring LLM Confidence in Code Completion

Zoe Kotti, Konstantina Dritsa, Diomidis Spinellis, and Panos Louridas

2025

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@misc{KDSL25,
  title = {The Fools are Certain; the Wise are Doubtful: {E}xploring {LLM} Confidence in Code Completion},
  author = {Kotti, Zoe and Dritsa, Konstantina and Spinellis, Diomidis and Louridas, Panos},
  year = {2025},
  eprint = {2508.16131},
  archiveprefix = {arXiv},
  primaryclass = {cs.SE},
}

TORES ’25

Improving Sequential Recommendations with LLMs

Artun Boz, Wouter Zorgdrager, Zoe Kotti, Jesse Harte, Panos Louridas, Vassilios Karakoidas, Dietmar Jannach, and Marios Fragkoulis

ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems, Nov 2025

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@article{BZKH25,
  author = {Boz, Artun and Zorgdrager, Wouter and Kotti, Zoe and Harte, Jesse and Louridas, Panos and Karakoidas, Vassilios and Jannach, Dietmar and Fragkoulis, Marios},
  title = {Improving Sequential Recommendations with LLMs},
  year = {2025},
  issue_date = {June 2026},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  volume = {4},
  number = {2},
  url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/3711667},
  doi = {10.1145/3711667},
  journal = {ACM Transactions on Recommender Systems},
  month = nov,
  articleno = {19},
  numpages = {35},
}

TSE ’23

Impact of Software Engineering Research in Practice: A Patent and Author Survey Analysis

Zoe Kotti, Georgios Gousios, and Diomidis Spinellis

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Apr 2023

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@article{KGS23,
  author = {Kotti, Zoe and Gousios, Georgios and Spinellis, Diomidis},
  title = {Impact of Software Engineering Research in Practice: {A} Patent and Author Survey Analysis},
  journal = {IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering},
  issn = {0098-5589},
  doi = {10.1109/TSE.2022.320821},
  month = apr,
  year = {2023},
  volume = {49},
  number = {4},
  pages = {2020--2038},
  publisher = {IEEE},
}