Oct 2025: Assessor for Innovate UK
Oct 2025: Responsible AI Mentor for Startups for Digital Catapult's new High Growth AI Accelerator (Innovate UK, BridgeAI)
Sept 2025: PhD examiner for Aida Halitaj on "Citation Worthiness Detection for Sentences in Low-Resource Languages"
Sept. 2025: Evaluator of Grant Proposals for Horizon Europe (European Commission)
Sept 2025: Listed in most recent edition (2024) of Stanford-Elsevier ranking of World’s Top 2% Scientists, ranked:
i) 21,554 out of 236,313 Top Scientists (among all disciplines and fields) globally;
ii) 991 out of 458,615 Top Scientists in AI & Image Processing globallySept. 2025: Michail Panagopoulos started his PhD at QMUL on Holistic Behavior Understanding (supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kollias; co- supervisor: Dr. Ziquan Liu)
August 2025: My work will be featured in Best of ICCV 2025
August 2025: My work is featured in Digital Catapult
August 2025: Promotion to Associate Professor in Multimodal AI
August 2025: Area Chair at IEEE FG 2026
July 2025: One paper accepted at ACM MM 2025
July 2025: Three papers accepted at ICCV 2025
June 2025: General Chair of 9th ABAW Workshop and Competition at ICCV 2025
May 2025: co-Organizer and Program Chair of PHAROS - Adaptation, Fairness, Explainability in AI Medical Imaging
Workshop at ICCV 2025May 2025: Area Chair at British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC) 2025
May 2025: Responsible AI Mentor for Startups for Digital Catapult's High Growth AI Accelerator (Innovate UK - BridgeAI)
May 2025: Evaluator of Grant Proposals for European Commission and for Israel Science Foundation (ISF)
April 2025: Paper accepted at CVPR 2025
April 2025: A journal paper accepted at IEEE Transactions on Biometrics, Behavior, and Identity Science
April 2025: Outstanding Reviewer Award CVPR 2025
March 2025: co-Organizer of International Workshop on Holistic and Responsible Affective Intelligence (HRAI) at ICMI 2025
Feb 2025: Poster presentation on violence detection at UK Home Office
Feb 2025: PhD examiner for Gabriella Miles on 'Automated Cognitive Assessment for Early Diagnosis of
Neurodegeneration'Jan 2025: Work featured in Platelet Magazine (the official journal of the ITP Support Association)
Jan 2025: General Chair of 8th ABAW Workshop and Competition at CVPR 2025
Dec. 2024: PhD examiner for Ioanna Ntinou on 'Efficient Spatio-Temporal Modelling for Action Recognition in Videos'
Nov. 2024: Adel Omer started his PhD at QMUL on dental health (supervisor: Prof. Aylin Baysan; co-
supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kollias)October 2024: Associate Editor at IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing
October 2024: I have two available PhD Studentships; more details can be found here
October 2024: I have an available CSC PhD Studentship; more details can be found here
October 2024: Listed in most recent edition (2023) of the Stanford-Elsevier ranking of the World’s Top 2% Scientists, ranked:
i) 31,716 out of 223,152 Top Scientists (among all disciplines and fields) globally;
ii) 1,275 out of 399,064 Top Scientists in AI & Image Processing globallyOctober 2024: Keynote talk delivered at FRQ-S AI and Digital Health Symposium 2024
October 2024: Program Chair at EAI BDTA 2024
Sept. 2024: Keynote talk delivered at Canon Medical Research Europe
Sept. 2024: Guanyu Hu started his new associate research under my supervision at QMUL on affective computing
Sept. 2024: Sara Mahdi started her PhD at QMUL on Human Computer Interaction (supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kollias; co-
supervisor: Dr. Valdas Noreika)August 2024: Received an IEEE FG 2024 Best Reviewed Paper Award
August 2024: Two conference papers accepted at ACM MM 2024 [1] [2]
August 2024: A conference paper accepted at IEEE IJCB 2024
July 2024: A journal paper accepted at Aerospace Science and Technology
July 2024: A journal paper accepted at IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (IEEE RAL)
July 2024: A journal paper accepted at Diagnostics
June 2024: PhD examiner for Thomas Bangert on "Colour: an Algorithmic Approach"
June 2024: Two conference papers accepted at ICUAS 2024 and Science and Information Conference 2024
June 2024: Two workshop papers accepted at ECCV 2024 [1] [2]
May 2024: General Chair of 7th ABAW Workshop and Competition at ECCV 2024
April 2024: Co-organizer of 2nd MRAC Workshop at ACM-MM 2024
April 2024: PhD examiner for Niki Foteinopoulou on 'Deep Learning Methods for Affect and Schizophrenia Symptom
Estimation'April 2024: Three UG students started their internship on violence detection and affect recognition in my lab
March 2024: Dr Safiye Ghasemi (a visiting Academic & Researcher) started her work under my mentoring and supervision
March 2024: Co-organizer of 1M-Deepfakes Detection Grand Challenge at ACM-MM 2024
March 2024: PhD examiner for Weiwei Cui on 'AI-based Dentistry Image Segmentation'
March 2024: One conference paper accepted at IEEE FG 2024
February 2024: Two conference papers accepted at ISBI 2024 and Computing Conference 2024
February 2024: Four PG students started their internship on multimodal AI in my lab
January 2024: Co-organizer of DEF-AI-MIA Workshop and 4th COV19D Competition at IEEE CVPR 2024
January 2024: General Chair of 6th ABAW Workshop and Competition (just started) at IEEE CVPR 2024
December 2023: One conference paper accepted at AAAI 2024
December 2023: One conference paper accepted at IEEE ICASSP 2024
December 2023: Chunchang Shao started his PhD at QMUL on face analysis (supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kollias; co-
supervisor: Prof. Ioannis Patras)December 2023: Delivered a presentation of our group's overall work to Minister Camilleri, the Minister of Gozo (Malta)
November 2023: Seminar delivered for an ECCS Research Sandpit (QMUL)
November 2023: Awarded the 'Sullivan Thesis Prize' by British Machine Vision Association at BMVC 2023
October 2023: PhD examiner for Thomas Bangert on 'Color: an Algorithmic Approach'
October 2023: Assessor for Innovate UK's Bridge AI program
October 2023: Keynote talk delivered at 9th Emotion Recognition in the Wild Challenge (EmotiW), ACM ICMI 2023
October 2023: A UG student started his internship on multimodal AI in my lab
October 2023: A machine learning engineer started his internship on multimodal AI in my lab
October 2023: A PG student started his internship on multimodal AI in my lab
Sept. 2023: Guanyu Hu started his associate research under my supervision at QMUL on affective computing
Sept. 2023: Damith Senadeera started his PhD at QMUL on violence detection (supervisor: Prof. Greg Slabaugh; co-
supervisor: Dr. Dimitrios Kollias)August 2023: Keynote talk delivered at IEEE Segah 2023 conference
August 2023: Suleiman Abuu, my supervisee, was nominated for the best UG project and showcase video award
August 2023: Awarded the 'Distinguished Scientist Award' by the Greek National Ministry of Defence
July 2023: Co-organization and Call for papers of REACT 2023 Workshop at ACM-MM 2023
July 2023: 1 journal paper accepted and published at Neurocomputing
June 2023: Organization and chairing of 5th ABAW Workshop and Competition (>100 attendees)
June 2023: 1 conference paper accepted and presented at IEEE CVPR 2023
June 2023: 1 workshop paper accepted and presented at IEEE CVPR 2023
June 2023: Organization and chairing of AI-MIA-COV19D Workshop and Competition (>40 attendees)
June 2023: 2 workshop papers accepted and presented at IEEE ICASSP 2023 [1] [2]
June 2023: 1 journal paper accepted at BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluations