Yannis Panagakis is a Senior Lecturer in Computer Science at Middlesex University London and a Research Fellow at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. He received his PhD and MSc degrees from the Department of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and his B.Sc. degree in Informatics and Telecommunication from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece. His current research interests include machine learning, signal processing, and mathematical optimization with applications to computer vision, human behaviour analysis, and music information research.