Professor Georgios Samakovitis MEng, MSc, MBA, PhD, SFHEA

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