Stefanos Zafeiriou

About Stefanos Zafeiriou

Stefanos Zafeiriou is currently a Professor in Machine Learning and Computer Vision with the Department of Computing, Imperial College London, London, U.K, and an EPSRC Early Career Research Fellow. Between 20••••20 he was also a Distinguishing Research Fellow with the University of Oulu under Finish Distinguishing Professor Programme. He was a recipient of the Prestigious Junior Research Fellowships from Imperial College London in 2011. He was the recipient of the President’s Medal for Excellence in Research Supervision for 2016 and the President’s Medal for Excellence in Entrepreneurship in 2022. He served Associate Editor and Guest Editor in various journals including Trans. Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, International Journal of Computer Vision, Transactions on Affective Computing, Computer Vision and Image Understanding, Transactions on Cybernetics the Image and Vision Computing Journal. He has been a Guest Editor of 8+ journal special issues and co-organised over 24 workshops/special sessions on specialised computer vision topics in top venues, such as CVPR/FG/ICCV/ECCV (including three very successfully challenges run in ICCV’13, ICCV’15 and CVPR’17 on facial landmark localisation/tracking). He has co-authored 70+ journal papers mainly on novel statistical machine learning methodologies applied to computer vision problems, such as 2-D/3-D face analysis, deformable object fitting and tracking, shape from shading, and human behaviour analysis, published in the most prestigious journals in his field of research, such as the T-PAMI, the International Journal of Computer Vision, and many papers in top conferences, such as CVPR, ICCV, ECCV, ICML. His students are frequent recipients of very prestigious and highly competitive fellowships, such as the Google Fellowship x2, the Intel Fellowship, and the Qualcomm Fellowship x4. He has more than 36K+ citations to his work, h-index 82. He was the General Chair of BMVC 2017. He was co-founder of many startups including Facesoft and Ariel AI that exited in 2020. He held many senior positions in big industrial players. His work has been recently showcased in Science

Experience

1. Ar Perception and Genai Lead (Image and Video Models)

   Google

   Apr 2023 — Present · London, GB

Education

• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)

  PhD, Computer Vision and Statistical Machine Learning

  2003 — 2007

• Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)

  BSc, Informatics

  1999 — 2003

Skills

• Machine Learning
• Signal Processing
• Pattern Recognition
• Computer Vision
• Artificial Intelligence