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Biography

Pantelis is a Computer Scientist with more than 15 years of experience in academia and industry. He is an accomplished researcher and engineer with numerous contributions to research papers, patents, open-source software, and teaching.

Pantelis has applied his skills and experience to innovate in robotics, mining automation, computer vision, and machine learning. Currently, he is interested in Bayesian machine learning and graph representation learning and their applications to social network analysis, document classification, genomics, and causal inference.

Achievements and Awards

  • 2006-2006

    Best Robotics Paper
    Canadian Conference on Computer and Robotic Vision

  • 2002-2006

    PRECARN Scholar
    PRECARN

  • 2002-2004

    NSERC Postgraduate Scholarship
    Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)

  • 2002-2004

    Graduate Studies Top-up Award
    University of British Columbia

  • 2001-2001

    First Place "Hors D'oeuvres Anyone?" Mobile Robot Competition
    Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence

  • 2000-2000

    TELUS Graduate Award
    TELUS

Current Roles

  • Principal Research Engineer and Team Leader
    Research & Development

Academic Qualifications

  • 2008

    PhD
    The University of British Columbia, Canada

  • 2002

    MSc
    The University of British Columbia, Canada

  • 1999

    BSc
    York University, Canada

Professional Experiences

  • 02/2012-09/2017

    Senior Research Engineer
    Canon Information Systems Research Australia (CiSRA)

  • 04/2008-01/2012

    Research Fellow
    The University of Sydney

  • 04/2002-11/2007

    Research Assistant
    The University of British Columbia