Team

Team

If you want to join the team as a PhD student or a PostDoc, read about open positions here. If you wish to join the group as an MSc or undergraduate student, drop Sotos an email to arrange a chat.

Academic Staff

Sotirios A. Tsaftaris

Chair in Machine Learning and Computer Vision

Sotirios A. Tsaftaris is currently Chair (Full Professor) in Machine Learning and Computer Vision at the University of Edinburgh. He also holds the Canon Medical/Royal Academy of Engineering Research Chair in Healthcare AI.
He is the Director for the EPSRC-funded AI Hub for Causality in Healthcare AI with Real Data (CHAI). He is an ELLIS Fellow of the European Lab for Learning and Intelligent Systems (ELLIS) of Edinburgh’s ELLIS Unit. Since 2023 he is a visiting researcher with Archimedes RC a research centre of excellence in AI in Athens, Greece. Between 2016 and 2023 he was a Turing Fellow with the Alan Turing Institute.

Steven McDonagh

Senior Lecturer

Steven McDonagh is a Senior Lecturer in IDCOM, University of Edinburgh where he works on Computer Vision and Machine Learning problems. Recent research directions include multi-modal, multi-task learning and medical imaging applications.

Alison O'Neil

Honorary Fellow

Alison O’Neil is a Senior Scientist in the AI Research Team at Canon Medical Research Europe and Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh.

Valerio Giuffrida

Assistant Professor in Computer Vision (The University of Nottingham)

Valerio Giuffrida is a Assistant Professor in Computer Vision at The University of Nottingham.

Post-doctoral Researchers

Michael Camilleri

Post-doctoral Researcher

Michael Camilleri is a Postgraduate Research Associate with the University of Dundee, collaborating closely with the VIOS group in Edinburgh. His research interests include Computer Vision, Probabilistic Modelling and general Machine Learning.

Damian Machlanski

Post-doctoral Researcher

Damian is a Research Associate in Causal AI at the University of Edinburgh. He works with Prof. Sotirios Tsaftaris within the CHAI group (AI Hub for Causality in Healthcare AI with Real Data). His research interests include causality (treatment effect estimation, structure learning) and machine learning (performance evaluation, hyperparameter optimisation, OOD generalisation). Please visit his personal website for more information.

Edward Moroshko

Post-doctoral Researcher

Edward is a Post-doctoral Research Associate at The University of Edinburgh. He currently works with Prof. Sotirios Tsaftaris on the VPP-WARD project (Virtual Power Plant with Artificial Intelligence for Resilience and Decarbonisation).

Fasih Haider

Post-doctoral Researcher

Dr Haider has a track record of scientific research and innovations focused on multimodal information processing, ambient assisted living technologies, digital biomarkers for mental health monitoring, machine learning methods, feature selection and extraction methods, social signal processing, video intelligence and affective computing. He has experience in managing research, having led work packages in research projects and endorsed by TechNation UK as an internationally recognized leader in digital technologies.

Feng Chen

Post-doctoral Researcher

Feng is a Post-doctoral Research Associate (PDRA) at The University of Edinburgh. Currently he is working in machine learning/computer vision in agriculture with Prof. Sotirios Tsaftaris and Dr. Valerio Giuffrida.

Jingshuai Liu

Post-doctoral Researcher

Jingshuai Liu received the bachelor’s degree in electronic science and technology from Tianjin University, China, in 2016, and the master’s degree in signal processing and communications in 2018 from The University of Edinburgh, UK, where he received the Ph.D. degree in 2023. His research project is Compressive MRI with Deep Convolutional and Attentive Models, which concerns the incorporation of neural network models and deep learning-based methods in fast MRI reconstruction to achieve high image quality from sparsely sampled signals. During his study, Jingshuai Liu gained background knowledge in image processing, medical imaging, deep learning and neural network models, and developed independent and collaborative research ability and communication skills. His research interests include image processing, machining learning, medical imaging, and computer vision.

Panos Dimitrakopoulos

Post-doctoral Researcher

Panagiotis (Pano) is a CHAI Postdoctoral Scholar at the University of Edinburgh under the supervision of Prof. Sotirios Tsaftaris. His research focuses on building deep learning models, primarily for vision problems, that can we reason about their uncertainty using Bayesian principles. For more details, please visit his personal website.

PhD Students

Analía Cabello Cano

PhD Student

Analía Cabello Cano is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, working under the supervision of Professor Sotirios Tsaftaris. Her research mostly focuses on the development and analysis of causal digital twins in healthcare.

Christopher Boland

PhD Student

Christopher Boland is an EngD student at the University of Edinburgh and Canon Medical Research Europe supervised by Professor Sotirios Tsaftaris, Dr Sonia Dahdouh, and Dr Keith Goatman. His research is focused on learning with limited supervision for medical image analysis. He has a strong interest in the study of fairness and bias in AI for healthcare.

Connor Jordan

PhD Student

Connor Jordan is a PhD student at The University of Edinburgh supervised by Dr Athanasios Angeloudis and Professor Sotirios Tsaftaris. His research interests include renewable energy analysis, highly constrained practical optimisation and the application of deep learning techniques to scientific problems.

Ilias Stogiannidis

PhD Student

Ilias Stogiannidis is a PhD student at the University of Edinburgh, under the supervision of Professor Sotirios Tsaftaris and Dr. Steven McDonagh. His research focuses on Computer Vision and general Machine Learning. For more details, visit his website.

Junyu(Jun) Yan

PhD Student

Junyu Yan is a PhD student at The University of Edinburgh, supervised by Professor Sotirios Tsaftaris. Her research is focused on the casual data-driven and prediction in care.

Konstantinos Vilouras

PhD Student

Konstantinos Vilouras is a PhD student at University of Edinburgh, supervised by Professor Sotirios Tsaftaris and Dr Alison O’Neil.

Nefeli Gkouti

PhD Student

Nefeli Gkouti is a PhD student at Archimedes RU / Athena RC and at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, supervised by Prof. Yannis Panagakis and Prof. Sotirios Tsaftaris. Her main research interests include causality and interpretability in machine learning, representation learning, generative models and their application in healthcare.

Nikos Spyrou

PhD Student

Nikos Spyrou is a PhD student at Archimedes RU / Athena RC and at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, coadvised by Prof. Yannis Panagakis and Prof. Sotirios Tsaftaris. His research interests mainly involve computer vision, representation learning, causality, generative models and applications in the medical domain.

Pedro Sanchez

PhD Student

Pedro Sanchez is a PhD student at The University of Edinburgh supervised by Professor Sotirios Tsaftaris and Dr Alison O’Neil. His research is focused on the intersection between causality and machine learning. He is especially interested in applications related to computer vision and medical imaging.

Raman Dutt

PhD Student

Raman Dutt is a PhD student at The University of Edinburgh under the CDT Biomedical Artificial Intelligence program supervised by Professor Timothy Hospedales and Professor Sotirios Tsaftaris. His research interests include transfer learning, representation learning and self-supervised learning for medical image analysis.

Thomas Melistas

PhD Student

Thomas Melistas is currently a PhD student at the Archimedes Research Unit (Athena RC) supervised by Prof. Sotirios Tsaftaris, Prof. Yannis Panagakis (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens) and Dr. Giorgos Papanastasiou (Pfizer). His main research interests are causal machine learning and generative modeling. He is excited about the application of the above in the domains of medical imaging and computer vision.

Yuning Du

PhD Student

Yuning Du is a PhD student at University of Edinburgh, supervised by Professor Sotirios Tsaftaris. Her research interests are focused on deep learning methods for cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging (CMR) reconstruction and analysis.

Yuyang Xue

PhD Student

Yuyang Xue is currently a PhD student in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Prof. Sotirios Tsaftaris. His main research interests are Generative Models and Computer Vision in Deep Learning.

Software Engineer

Andrew Wood

Software Engineer

Andrew Wood is a Software Engineer at the University of Edinburgh, working with Professor Sotirios Tsaftaris as part of the digital infrastructure strand of PhenomUK. This aims to provide shared access to information, data and computational services for the plant phenotypoing community across the UK.

Danilo Bueno

Software Engineer

Danilo Bueno is a Software Engineer at the University of Edinburgh, working with Professor Sotirios Tsaftaris as part of the digital infrastructure strand of PhenomUK. This aims to provide shared access to information, data and computational services for the plant phenotyping community across the UK.

Visiting Students

Jinghan Sun

Visiting Student

Jinghan Sun is a visiting PhD student at the University of Edinburgh from Xiamen University, China, supervised by Prof. Liansheng Wang. Her research interests include representation learning and vision-language learning in medical image analysis.

Junyi Gao

Visiting Student

Junyi Gao is a PhD student in the Health Data Research UK (HDRUK) program at the University of Edinburgh, supervised by Prof. Ewen Harrison. His research interests include deep-based clinical predictive modeling with electronic health record (EHR) data, population-level spatio-temporal healthcare predictions and clinical trial optimizations.

Alumni

  • Dr Xiao Liu (PhD) - Huawei
  • Mr Grzegorz Jacenków (PhD) - Data Scientist at Amazon
  • Dr Nikolaos Dionelis (PostDoc) - Joint Research Centre, EU
  • Dr John Hartley (PostDoc) - Data Scientist at Natwest Group
  • Mr Victor Campello (Visiting PhD) - PhD at Universitat de Barcelona
  • Dr Chen Qin (Lecturer) - Lecturer/Assistant Professor, Imperial College, London
  • Dr Spyridon Thermos (PostDoc) - Startup Founder
  • Dr Tian Xia (PhD) - PostDoc at The University of Edinburgh, Scotland
  • Mr Andrei Dobrescu (PhD) - Computer Vision Researcher at CattleEye
  • Mr Phivos Sofokleous (MSc)
  • Dr Gabriele Valvano (Visiting PhD) - Lead AI Specialist, Baker Hughes, Italy
  • Dr Haochuan Jiang (PostDoc) - Lecturer, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
  • Dr Agisilaos Chartsias (PhD) - Deep Learning Resarch Scientist, Ultromics, United Kingdom
  • Mr Hao Chen (BEng) - PhD Student, Carnegie Mellon University, United States
  • Dr Thomas Joyce (PostDoc) - PostDoc, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
  • Dr Ilkay Oksuz (PhD) - Assistant Professor, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey
  • Dr Massimo Minervini (PhD/PostDoc) - CET Electronics, Italy
  • Dr Cristian Rusu (PostDoc) - IIT
  • Dr Marco Bevilacqua (PostDoc) - Data Scientist, Cdiscount, France
  • Dr Anirban Mukhopadhyay (PostDoc) - Head, Medical and Environmental Computing (MEC-Lab), TU Darmstadt, Germany