Nicholas Ampazis

Nicholas Ampazis is an accomplished academic and consultant with extensive experience in the fields of financial and management engineering, data mining, and machine learning. Currently serving as an Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Financial and Management Engineering at the University of the Aegean since 2015, Nicholas previously held roles as a tenured and tenure-track Assistant Professor at the same institution. Nicholas has also contributed as a Research and Development Consultant at Pattern Explorations, a Senior Advisor at Qrator Ltd, and a Mentor at The OpenFund, which focuses on fostering start-ups in the software and mobile sectors. Additional notable involvement includes being a member of The Ensemble team during the Netflix Prize Competition and founding Feeds 2.0. Nicholas's educational background features a PhD with distinction in Neural Computing from the National Technical University of Athens, an MSc with distinction in Information Processing and Neural Networks from King's College London, and a BEng (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Imperial College London.