{"id":509,"date":"2025-06-11T15:33:42","date_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:33:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/?p=509"},"modified":"2025-06-11T15:34:41","modified_gmt":"2025-06-11T14:34:41","slug":"head-of-the-department-of-computing-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.imperial.ac.uk\/senior-appointments\/2025\/06\/11\/head-of-the-department-of-computing-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Head of the Department of Computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Professor Stefanos Zafeiriou has accepted the appointment as Head of the Department of Computing for a five year term, starting from 1 September 2025.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Professor Zafeiriou joined Imperial in 2008 as a Research Associate in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. He moved to the Department of Computing in 2010 and was promoted to Professor in Machine Learning and Computer Vision in 2020. He <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">currently holds one of the EPSRC Turing AI World-Leading Researcher Fellowships and has co-founded six startups.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Professor Zafeiriou\u2019s research interests lie in the research areas of machine learning (<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">deep learning and statistical), computer vision and signal analysis and processing.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot;335559738&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Stefanos Zafeiriou has accepted the appointment as Head of the Department of Computing for a five year term, starting from 1 September 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1225,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48173],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-509","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorised"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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