Vivian received her Dipl.-Ing. (integrated M.Eng. equivalent) in Information and Communication Systems Engineering from the University of the Aegean, Greece in 2017 and M.Sc. in Mobile Communication Systems from University of Surrey, UK in 2019.

She has held Erasmus+ Traineeship positions for 3 months with the 5G Innovation Centre (5GIC), University of Surrey in 2018 and for 1 year with the Electronic Systems Group, Technical University of Eindhoven (TU/e), Netherlands in 2019-2020.

Since October 2021 she has held a joint PhD research scholar position with the Coding for Communications and Data Storage (COD) group, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Munich (TUM) and the Information Processing and Communications Lab (IPC Lab), Imperial College London on coded computations for large scale machine learning with privacy guarantees.