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 a 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 also a Turing Fellow with the Alan Turing Institute.
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.
Chen Qin
Lecturer in Machine Learning and Computer Vision
Dr. Chen Qin is a Lecturer in Computer Vision and Machine Learning at Electronics and Electrical Engineering, The University of Edinburgh.
Valerio Giuffrida
Lecturer in Data Science (Edinburgh Napier University)
Valerio Giuffrida is a Lecturer in Data Science at Edinburgh Napier University.
Post-doctoral Researchers
Marija Jegorova
Post-doctoral Researcher
Marija is a post-doctoral Research Associate in the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh in Machine Learning and Privacy.
Nikolaos Dionelis
Post-doctoral Researcher
Nikolaos Dionelis is a postdoctoral Research Associate (RA) in Machine Learning at the University of Edinburgh.
Spyridon Thermos
Post-doctoral Researcher
Spyridon Thermos is a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Edinburgh, working with Prof. Sotirios A. Tsaftaris on representation learning and generative models.
PhD Students
Andrei Dobrescu
PhD Student
Andrei Dobrescu is a third year PhD student supervised by Prof. Tsaftaris. The focus of his PhD is researching deep learning and computer vision algorithms for image-based plant phenotyping.
Grzegorz Jacenków
PhD Student
Grzegorz Jacenków is a PhD student at The University of Edinburgh supervised by Professor Sotirios Tsaftaris and Dr Alison O’Neil. His research is focused on integrating medical imaging and non-imaging modalities.
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.
Phivos Sofokleous
PhD Student
Phivos is a first year PhD student at the University of Edinburgh supervised by Professor Tsaftaris and co-supervised by Dr. Joao Mota of Heriot-Watt University.
Tian Xia
PhD Student
Tian Xia is a third year PhD student at the Insititute for Digital Communications, School of Engineering, the University of Edinburgh. His principle supervisor is Prof. Sotirios A. Tsaftaris.
Xiao Liu
PhD Student
Xiao Liu is currently a first year PhD student in IDCOM of the School of Engineering at the University of Edinburgh. His principle supervisor is Prof. Sotirios Tsaftaris.
Visiting Students
Gabriele Valvano
Visiting PhD Student
Gabriele Valvano is a Biomedical Engineer doing a research doctorate at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca. He is currently a visiting researcher at the University of Edinburgh under prof. Tsaftaris. His main area of expertise is deep learning. His work includes semi-supervised learning, representation learning and features disentanglement.
Alumni
- Dr Haochuan Jiang (PostDoc) - Lecturer, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, China
- Dr Agisilaos Chartsias (PhD) - Enterpreneur, United Kingdom
- Mr Hao Chen (BEng) - MSc 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) - Lecturer, National University of Ireland, Ireland
- Dr Marco Bevilacqua (PostDoc) - Cdiscount, France
- Dr Anirban Mukhopadhyay (PostDoc) - Head, Medical and Environmental Computing (MEC-Lab), TU Darmstadt, Germany