I am an Assistant Professor at the Computation-based Science and Technology Research Center at The Cyprus Institute. Previously, I was Lecturer at the Department of Computing at Goldsmiths, University of London. I obtained my MSc and PhD from the Department of Computing at Imperial College London, where I remained as a Research Associate and subsequently an Honorary Research Fellow. I completed my undergraduate studies at the   Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the University of Athens, Greece, and have been a Visiting Researcher at the SEQAM Lab, Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers.

My research interests are in Machine Learning and its applications, focusing on analysis and interpretation of multi-sensory high-dimensional data – often conveyed via visual, auditory, social, and biomedical signals.  For more details, see my list of publications (Google Scholar).

News: (updated Jan/21)

• [Jan/2021] Paper on mitigating demographic bias in facial datasets accepted at IJCV.
• [Jan/2021] Paper on learning disentangled representations accepted at IEEE TNNLS.
• [Oct/2020] Paper accepted at ICPR 2020.
• [Oct/2020] Paper accepted at the NeurIPS 2020 workshop on Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning.
• [June/2020] Paper on Multimodel Superensembling Using Convolutional Neural Networks accepted at SAIS 2020.
• [April/2020] Paper on Enhancing Facial Data Diversity with Style-based Aging accepted at the CVPR workshop on Fair, Data Efficient, and Trusted Computer Vision.
• [April/2020] 3DFaceGAN paper accepted at IJCV.
• [Feb/2020] PRE-SEED grant awarded by RIF.
• [Dec/2019] Charlie Ringer, student at IGGI has been selected as finalist at the inaugural Twitch research fellowship competition.
• [Dec/2019] Received a CyI Innovation Award.
• [July/2019]. Papers accepted at EUSIPCO and CoG 2019 and ACII 2019 workshops.
• [Jan/2019]. Journal paper on Deep Affect “in-the-wild” accepted at IJCV.
• [Jan/2019]. Paper on Time-series Clustering accepted at IEEE FG 2019
• [Oct/2018]. Journal on Robust Component Analysis for 3D Facial UV Maps has been accepted at the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (JSTSP) .
• [Sep/2018]. Paper on Multi-Attribute Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis for 3D Facial Shapes accepted @ ACCV 2018.
• [July/2018]. Paper “Less is More: Univariate Modelling to Detect Early Parkinson’s Disease from Keystroke Dynamics” accepted @ Discovery Science 18.
• [June/2018]. Paper on Live Streaming for Multi-view Analysis of Emotional and Social Signals accepted @ the FDG’18 Twitch workshop.
• [June/2018]. Paper on Multi-View Highlight Detection in Game Streams accepted @ the Foundations of Digital Games 2018.
• [May/2018]. Paper accepted on Deep Learning for Complex Physiological Signals @ EUSIPCO 2018.
• [Oct/2017]. Paper accepted at the IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Signal Processing (IEEE J-STSP).
• [Sep/2017]. I will be giving an invited talk at the Matrix and Tensor Factorization Methods in Computer Vision workshop at ICCV 2017.
• [Aug/2017]. Co-chaired the special session on Component Analysis for Computer Vision @ EUSIPCO 2017
• [July/2017]. Paper analysing the typing behaviour of patients with Parkinson’s Disease accepted at Socinfo 2017.
• [Apr/2017]. Deep Canonical Time Warping accepted for publication at the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence.
• [Apr/2017]. Awarded an NVIDIA GPU Grant.
• [Feb/2017]. I will be co-chairing the 1st Affect-in-the-wild Challenge, to be held in conjunction with CVPR 2017.
• [Dec/2016]. Paper Dynamic Probabilistic Linear Discriminant Analysis for Video Classification accepted at IEEE ICASSP 2017.
• [July/2016]. I am a Guest Editor for the special issue on “Human Behaviour Analysis in-the-wild” at the IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. More info here, submission deadline 15 December 2016.
• [June/2016]. Co-chaired the “Affect in-the-wild” workshop @ CVPR 2016 along with Irene Kotsia, Guoying Zhao and Stefanos Zafeiriou (keynote by Aleix Martinez).
• [Mar/2016]. Papers Mnemonic Descent Method (MDM) and Deep Canonical Time Warping (DCTW) accepted @ CVPR 2016 (code for MDM available here, code for DCTW available here )
• [Mar/2016]. Paper @ ICASSP 2016 awarded with the IEEE Spoken Language Processing Student Grant
• [Jan/2016]. Paper on speech emotion recognition using CNNs accepted @ ICASSP 2016
• [Dec/2015]. Towards Deep Multimodal Alignment, presented at the Multimodal Machine Learning Workshop @ NIPS 2015
• [Nov/2015]. Robust Correlated and Individual Component Analysis, accepted at the IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence