Konstantinos Kamnitsas MSc, PhD

Konstantinos Kamnitsas is an Associate Professor of Engineering Science (Biomedical Imaging) at the Department of Engineering Science, and a Non-Tutorial Fellow at Wolfson College. His research focuses on Machine-Learning (ML) and primarily deep neural networks for medical image analysis. His work has two main goals: a) Develop more reliable, transparent, and accountable models for safer use in healthcare. b) Empower radiologists, clinicians, and researchers with intelligent ML-based tools to better address their research questions and the needs of clinical workflows.

Konstantinos completed his Ph.D. in 2019 at Imperial College London, where he developed some of the first 3-dimensional neural networks for processing volumetric medical data, such as MRI and CT, and methods for improving generalization to heterogeneous data. His work has won various awards, among which two international competitions for brain cancer and ischemic stroke lesion segmentation. He also obtained an MSc in Computing Science in 2013, also from Imperial College, and a diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2010 from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece. He has also spent time conducting research in industry, such as at the Healthcare Intelligence team of Microsoft Research and Kheiron Medical Technologies.

Konstantinos became a Lecturer in 2021 at the School of Computer Science of the University of Birmingham, where he retains a position as an Honorary Research Fellow since 2022 when he joined the University of Oxford as an Associate Professor.