Dr Kostas PapafitsorosLecturer in Mathematical Data Science Email: k.papafitsoros@qmul.ac.ukRoom Number: MB-117Website: http://kostaspapafitsoros.weebly.com/ProfileTeachingResearchPublic EngagementProfileI am a Lecturer in Mathematical Data Science at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Queen Mary University of London. Prior to that (2017-2022), I was a research scientist at the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics, in Berlin, Germany, working in the group Nonsmooth Variational Problems and Operator Equations. During the period September 2015-August 2017, I was an Alexander von Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow, working initially at the Mathematical Institute of Humboldt University Berlin and later at the Weierstrass Institute. I completed my PhD in 2014 at the University of Cambridge, where I was also a member of the Cambridge Image Analysis group. I stayed in Cambridge six more months after my PhD, as an EPSRC Doctoral Prize fellow at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics.Undergraduate Teaching MTH6101 Introduction to Machine Learning (2022-23, 2023-24) Postgraduate Teaching Msc Data Analytics, dissertation supervision (2022-23, 2023-24) ResearchResearch Interests:See Kostas Papafitsoros’s research profile pages including details of research interests, publications, and live grants.Public Engagement With the help of a 2023 QMUL Impact Acceleration Fund, and together with the NGO's ARCHELON and MEDASSET we have created a unique interactive web-platform Zakynthos Turtles, which actively engages visitors and tour operators with responsible sea turtle conservation on Zakynthos Island, Greece and helps towards an adoption of turtle-friendly attitude in ecotouristic activities. Through this platform, visitors upload images of unique turtles that they have observed for individual photo-identification and receive information about them in real time e.g., including their behaviours, interesting stories, and quantification of the human pressure that their observed turtle is subject to (as simplified dissemination of my research). Since 2024 the project is also supported by the British Chelonia Group. A related poster presentation presented at the International Sea Turtle Symposium 2024 can be found here.