Key details
Professor Georgios Samakovitis
Professor of Financial Technology, Deputy Head of School (Fintech, Blockchain and Privacy)
Georgios holds a MEng in Computer Engineering, MSc in Data Networks and an MBA. His early research work focused on AI for 3D medical image processing and reconstruction, as part of the Greek Ministry of Health Research Fund. His PhD at the University of Edinburgh focused on banking technology investment decisions in the dot-com boom and bust periods (1999-2004). His current work concentrates on banking and payment systems technologies, Enterprise Architectures Machine Learning in FinTech. Most recent projects investigated the uses of AI in anti-money laundering (AML) and financial transaction fraud assessment, including the development of Collective Intelligence for AML in financial ecosystems. Ongoing work includes the investigation into developments in cryptocurrency (Decentralised Virtual Asset Class) markets. Georgios currently supervises 2 PhD projects on anti-money laundering in blockchain-based transaction ecosystems (cryptocurrencies), knowledge management in healthcare and mobile governance. He supervises MSc and BSc projects and teaches Strategic IT, Data Modeling and Enterprise Architectures in MSc and BSc programmes and designed and delivered short courses in these areas. Georgios is a member of the FinCrime working group of the UK Payments Strategy Forum and the HMG Cabinet Office Advisory Group on Counter Fraud Data Sharing & Data Analytics; He is a Senior Fellow of the UK HEA and a member of the ESRC Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF) peer review panel
Responsibilities within the university
Module Leader
- Scholarly and Academic Practice
- Project (Computing)
- Department of Information Systems & Multimedia Undergraduate Project
- Project: UG Programmes in the Department of CST
- Diploma in Industrial Studies
- Final Year Projects
- Professionalism For Cyber Security Practitioners
- Blockchain for FinTech Applications
- Technologies for Anti-Money Laundering and Financial Crime
- Work Placement Course
Recognition
FinCrime working group of the UK Payments Strategy Forum (2017-17)
Member of the HMG Cabinet Office Advisory Group on Counter Fraud Data Sharing & Data Analytics
Senior Fellow of the UK HEA
Member of the ESRC Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF) peer review panel
TOGAF 9.1 Certification
Research / Scholarly interests
Blockchain, FinTech, Artificial Intelligence, Complex Network Analysis, Anti-Money Laundering, Cryptocurrencies, Financial Fraud, Enterprise Architectures, Knowledge Management
Recent publications
Article
Basu, Aniket , Oroojeni, Hooman, Samakovitis, Georgios, Al-Rifaie, Mohammad Majid (2024), Three-dimensional drone cell placement: drone placement for optimal coverage. MDPI. In: , , , . MDPI, Future Internet, 16: 401 (11) 1999-5903 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/fi16110401).
Pogiatzis, Antreas and , Samakovitis, Georgios (2020), An event-driven serverless ETL pipeline on AWS. MDPI. In: , , , . MDPI, Applied Sciences, 11: 191 (1) 2076-3417 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/app11010191).
Pogiatzis, Antreas and , Samakovitis, Georgios (2020), Using BiLSTM networks for context-aware deep sensitivity labelling on conversational data. MDPI. In: , , , . MDPI, Applied Sciences, 10: 8924 (24) 2076-3417 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.3390/app10248924).
Petridis, Miltos , Kapetanakis, Stelios, Samakovitis, Georgios, Ekpenyong, Francis (2020), Towards the ensemble: IPCBR model in investigating financial bubbles. European Open Access Publishing. In: , , , . European Open Access Publishing, European Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 4 (4) . pp. 1-7 2506-9853 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.24018/ejece.2020.4.4.193).
Book section
Salampasis, Dimitrios and , Samakovitis, Georgios (2024), Chapter 4. Regtech frontiers: innovations, trends, and insights redefining compliance. Emerald Publishing. In: , , In: Kent Baker, Greg Filbeck, Keith Black (eds.), The Emerald Handbook of Fintech. Emerald Publishing, Leeds (1st) . pp. 65-87 . ISBN: 9781837536092; 9781837536085 (doi: https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-83753-608-520241008).
Ekpenyong, Francis , Samakovitis, Georgios, Kapetanakis, Stylianos, Petridis, Miltos (2021), Case retrieval with clustering for a case-based reasoning and inverse problem methodology: an investigation of financial bubbles. Springer Link. In: The International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery, 24-26 July 2021, The International Conference on Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery In: Hongying Meng, Tao Lei, Maozhen Li, Kenli Li, Ning Xiong, Lipo Wang (eds.), Advances in Natural Computation, Fuzzy Systems and Knowledge Discovery. Springer Link, Cham and New York , 88 (1st) . pp. 1515-1524 . ISBN: 9783030706647 ; 9783030706654 (doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-70665-4_164) NB Item availability restricted.
Conference proceedings
Yekovie, Anthony , Sani, Abubakar Sadiq, Dong, Yuan, Samakovitis, Georgios , Loukas, George (2025), ASAVA: Autonomous Safety and Security Validation system for Internet of Things application. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE). In: 2025 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps): Workshop on Enabling Security, Trust, and Privacy in 6G Wireless Systems - Workshop on Enabling Security, Trust, and Privacy in 6G Wireless Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, 8–12 December 2025, 8–12 December 2025, Taipei, Taiwan , 2025 IEEE Globecom Workshops (GC Wkshps): Workshop on Enabling Security, Trust, and Privacy in 6G Wireless Systems - Workshop on Enabling Security, Trust, and Privacy in 6G Wireless Systems, Taipei, Taiwan, 8th – 12th December 2025. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE), Piscataway, New Jersey (doi: ) NB Item availability restricted.
Pogiatzis, Antreas and , Samakovitis, Georgios (2022), A systematic local fork management framework for blockchain sandbox environments. Springer Link. In: , , In: Andrea Marrella, Raimundas Matulevičius, Renata Gabryelczyk, Bernhard Axmann, Vesna Bosilj Vukšić, Walid Gaaloul, Mojca Indihar Štemberger, Andrea Kő, Qinghua Lu (eds.), Business Process Management: Blockchain, Robotic Process Automation, and Central and Eastern Europe Forum BPM 2022 Blockchain, RPA, and CEE Forum, Münster, Germany, September 11–16, 2022, Proceedings. Springer Link, Cham, Switzerland International Conference on Business Process Management, 459 (1st) . pp. 36-50 . ISBN: 9783031161674; 9783031161681ISSN: 1865-1348 (Print), 1865-1356 (Online) (doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16168-1_3) NB Item availability restricted.