Alexandros Iosifidis holds the Foundation PS Professorship of Machine Learning at Tampere University, Finland. Before joining Tampere University, he was a Professor in Machine Learning and Computational Intelligence at Aarhus University, Denmark leading the Machine Intelligence research area of the University's Centre for Digitalisation, Big Data and Data Analytics (DIGIT).
Alexandros has contributed to more than thirty R&D projects financed by EU, Finnish, and Danish funding agencies and companies. He has (co-)authored 125+ articles in international journals and 165+ papers in international conferences/workshops in topics of his expertise. He is a co-Editor of the Deep Learning for Robot Perception and Cognition book (Academic Press, 2022). His work received several awards, including the Academy of Finland Postdoctoral Research Fellowship 2016, the H.C. Ørsted Young Researcher Prize 2018 for contributions to Signal Processing and Machine Learning, the EURASIP Early Career Award 2021 for contributions to Statistical Machine Learning and Artificial Neural Networks, the JP Morgan Faculty Research Award 2022 for work in Bayesian Deep Learning for financial modeling, and the Victor Albeck prize 2024 from Aarhus University Research Fund for his contributions to advancing AI research.
Alexandros is a Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and he served as an Officer of the Finnish IEEE Signal Processing-Circuits and Systems Chapter from 2016 to 2018. He is a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Machine Learning for Signal Processing, a member of the IEEE Technical Committee on Image, Video, and Multidimensional Signal Processing, he was a Management Committee Member of the COST Action Fintech and Artificial Intelligence in Finance., and a member (as well as an Associate member) of the Technical Area Committee on Visual Information Processing of the European Association of Signal Processing (EURASIP). He is also an Adjunct Professor (Docent) of Data Management and Data Analytics in Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland.
Alexandros has been serving in the Editorial Board of international journals. He served as the Associate Editor in Chief for the Neurocomputing journal covering the Neural Networks research area between 2021 and 2025, as Associate Editor for the IEEE Transactions on Neural Networks and Learning Systems (2022-2023), the IEEE Transactions on Artificial Intelligence (2023-present), the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video Technology (2024-2026), and Neurocomputing (2018-2021), and as Area Editor for the Signal Processing: Image Communication journal (2018-present). He contributed to the organization of international conferences as an Area Chair or Technical Program Committee Chair, including IEEE ICIP (2018-2025), IEEE ICASSP (2023-2025) and EUSIPCO (2019,2021,2023), and as Publicity Chair for IEEE ICME 2021. He is Virtual & Web Chair of ECCV 2026.