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I am Professor of Computer Science and Director of Teaching Quality in Birkbeck’s Department of Computer Science and Information Systems, and Co-Director of the Birkbeck Knowledge Lab. I am Fellow of the Advance HE, and Member of the EPSRC College, UK. I hold BEng/MEng and Dr. Eng (University of Patras, Greece) and PGCE(HE) (Brunel University, UK). Before becoming an academic, I held R&D positions in the cement and automotive industries designing fuzzy and neural components for embedded systems. My team designs and develops innovative learning algorithms and system components that employ machine learning and deep networks, sometimes combined with symbolic AI, for psychophysiological data modelling and classification, and intelligent learning environments. The aim is to enable systems to exhibit different levels of intelligence, learn from data and transfer knowledge to new contexts. Our work has received best paper awards by the IEEE (2000 and 2008), the European Network on Intelligent Technologies for Smart Adaptive Systems (2001 and 2004), the International Association for Development of the Information Society (2006), the ACM (2009) and KES International (2010).

Journal board memberships





  • Editorial Board of the journal Applied Intelligence: The International Journal of Artificial Intelligence, Neural Networks, and Complex Problem-Solving Technologies, Springer 
  • Editorial board of the journal Informatics, MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Associate Editor of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT), World Scientific.
  • Associate Editor of the International Journal of Artificial Life Research (IJALR), IGI Publishing. 
  • Board of Advisory Editors of the Journal of Information Technology Research (JITR), IGI Publishing.
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Mathematical Sciences and Modelling, DergiPark.
  • Editorial Board of the Open Journal of Information Systems, RonPub UG, Lübeck, Germany. 
  • Editorial Board of the Open Journal of Web Technologies, RonPub UG, Lübeck, Germany.
  • Advisory Board of Sci, MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. 
  • Editorial board of the journal Sensors, MDPI, Basel, Switzerland.
  • Editorial Advisory Board of the Ergonomics Open Journal, Bentham Publishers (2007-2016). 
  • Editorial Board of The Scientific World Journal, Hindawi Publishing Corporation (2012-2016).
  • Editorial Board of the journal User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction: The Journal of Personalization Research (UMUAI), Springer (2007-2015). 
  • Editorial Advisory Board of the Open Cybernetics and Systemics Journal, Bentham Publishers (2007-2015). 
  • Associate Editor of the journal Evolving Systems: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Advanced Science and Technology, Springer (2015-2016).
  • Editorial Board of the journal Evolving Systems: An Interdisciplinary Journal for Advanced Science and Technology, Springer (2010-2014). 
  • Editorial Advisory Board of the Open Software Engineering Journal, Bentham Publishers (2007-2013). 
  • Technical Editor of the Journal of Applied Sciences, Asian Network for Scientific Information (2006-2008).
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