Professor Christos Tachtatzis

Electronic and Electrical Engineering

Personal statement

I am a Reader in the Department of Electronic and Electrical Engineering. I re-joined the University of Strathclyde in 2011 and in 2016 I was awarded a prestigious Chancellor’s Fellow award. I became a Senior Lecturer in 2018 and Reader in 2021. My current activities focus on the area of applied Artificial Intelligence and industrial informatics with particular emphasis in 1) transfer learning and domain adaptation 2) incremental active learning 3) causality and explainability 4) Fusion of data-based models with expert knowledge. My research interests are interdisciplinary in nature and span across applications domains and industrial sectors.

Sustainable Agri-food Systems (Livestock and Arable)
Digital Health
Cybersecurity
Advanced Manufacturing

I am a Strathclyde lead for the UKRI AI Centre for Doctoral Training in Sustainable Understandable agri-food Systems Transformed by Artificial INtelligence (SUSTAIN), Co-Director of Laboratory for Innovation in Autism, Coordinator for the “System for Data-Based Decisions” sub-theme of the Measurement, Digital and Enabling Technologies (MDET) Strategic Theme, member of the HeatlhTech Cluster management team.

Expertise

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Area of Expertise

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
Computer Vision
Video Analytics
Edge and Cloud Computing Analytics

Prize And Awards

Innovate UK KTP Engineering Excellence Award 2021: Recipient; 23/9/2021
Finalist in Herald Higher Education Awards - Outstanding Business Engagement in Universities: Recipient; 31/5/2022
Strathclyde Team Medal for Innovation in Autism: Recipient; 28/9/2018
SIN 2014 - Best Paper Award: Recipient; 11/9/2014

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Qualifications

Member of the IET
Senior Member IEEE
Fellow of the Higher Education

Publications

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Publications

Deep internal learning for inpainting of cloud-affected regions in satellite imagery: Czerkawski Mikolaj, Upadhyay Priti, Davison Christopher, Werkmeister Astrid, Cardona Javier, Atkinson Robert, Michie Craig, Andonovic Ivan, Macdonald Malcolm, Tachtatzis Christos; Remote Sensing Vol 14 (2022); https://doi.org/10.3390/rs14061342
Neural knitworks : patched neural implicit representation networks: Czerkawski Mikolaj, Cardona Javier, Atkinson Robert, Michie Craig, Andonovic Ivan, Clemente Carmine, Tachtatzis Christos; Pattern Recognition Vol 151 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2024.110378
Augmenting cattle tracking efficiency through monocular depth estimation: Dickson Lewis T, Davison Christopher, Michie Craig, McRobert Ewan, Atkinson Robert, Andonovic Ivan, Ferguson Holly, Dewhurst Richard, Briddock Roger, Brooking Mark, Pavlovic Dejan, Marko Oskar, Crnojevic Vladimir, Tachtatzis Christos; IEEE Conference on AgriFood Electronics (2024)
Multi-label classification of crystallisation outcomes from in-situ imaging: Sandhu Parandeep, Boyle Christopher, Tachtatzis Christos, Cardona Javier; 2024 British Association for Crystal Growth Annual Conference (2024)
Multi-modal convolutional parameterisation network for guided image inverse problems: Czerkawski Mikolaj, Upadhyay Priti, Davison Christopher, Atkinson Robert, Michie Craig, Andonovic Ivan, Macdonald Malcolm, Cardona Javier, Tachtatzis Christos; Journal of Imaging Vol 10 (2024); https://doi.org/10.3390/jimaging10030069
A new hybridized dimensionality reduction approach using genetic algorithm and folded linear discriminant analysis applied to hyperspectral imaging for effective rice seed classification: Fabiyi Samson Damilola, Murray Paul, Zabalza Jaime, Tachtatzis Christos, Vu Hai, Dao Trung Kien; IEEE Transactions on AgriFood Electronics Vol 2, pp. 151-164 (2024); https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFE.2024.3374753

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Teaching

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Teaching

Currently teaching two classes:

EE992 - Neural Networks and Deep Learning
EE273, EE985 - Engineering Design For Software Development 2: Object oriented programming using C++

Modules taught in the past:

EE579 Advanced Microcontroller Applications - fifth year microcontrollers class using MSP430 in Assembly and C.
EE987 - Sensor technologies
DM996 - Intelligent Sensing, Reasoning And Deep Learning

Research

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Research Interests

Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence:

Deep Learning Video and Image Analytics (Multi-view Multi-object Detection and Tracking, Image reconstruction, Image Inpainting and Synthesis)
Time Series Classification, forecasting and generation/imputation
Anomaly Detection and Event Classification
Remote Sensing and Earth Observation
Spectral analysis and Hyperspectral Imaging

Professional Activities

Icelandic Research Fund (External organisation): Advisor; 1/8/2024
Digital Signal Processing (Journal): Peer reviewer; 1/8/2024
Horizon Europe 6G-ICARUS (External organisation): Advisor; 28/4/2024
IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems: Organiser; 1/4/2024
Specialist Advisory Group on applications of Artificial Intelligence for Environment Natural Resources & Agriculture Policy: Advisor; 4/3/2024
External Examiner for Electronic and Computer Engineering (ECE) Course: Examiner; 1/1/2024

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Projects

NeRDA Options Appraisal: Stephen, Bruce (Principal Investigator) Bhagavathy, Priya (Co-investigator) Tachtatzis, Christos (Co-investigator); 03-Apr-2024 - 03-Oct-2024
Improved productivity and sustainability in high value dairy production through the deployment of low cost wireless methane sensors (Digital Dairy Chain): Michie, Craig (Principal Investigator) Andonovic, Ivan (Co-investigator) Lengden, Michael (Co-investigator) Tachtatzis, Christos (Co-investigator); 01-Oct-2023 - 31-Mar-2025
22/145 Systems Engineering Innovation hubs for Multiple longterm Conditions - Devlopment phase: Maier, Anja (Principal Investigator) Connolly, Patricia (Co-investigator) Gray, Louise (Co-investigator) Inns, Tom (Co-investigator) Kurdi, Amanj (Co-investigator) Maguire, Roma (Co-investigator) Mehnen, Jorn (Co-investigator) Michie, Craig (Co-investigator) Mueller, Tanja (Co-investigator) Picanco Rodrigues, Vinicius (Co-investigator) Tachtatzis, Christos (Co-investigator) Whitfield, Ian (Co-investigator); 01-Jul-2023 - 31-Jul-2025
ICLEI Europe: Glasgow Environmental Monitoring of Indoor and Outdoor Air (GEMINOA): Michie, Craig (Principal Investigator) Allan, Grant (Co-investigator) Sharpe, Tim (Co-investigator) Tachtatzis, Christos (Co-investigator) Williamson, Jack (Researcher); 01-May-2023 - 30-Jun-2025
SAfe Passage through Shifting Sands: Macdonald, Malcolm (Principal Investigator) Clemente, Carmine (Co-investigator) McKee, David (Co-investigator) Tachtatzis, Christos (Co-investigator) Clark, Ruaridh (Research Co-investigator) Werkmeister, Astrid (Researcher); 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jul-2024
On Farm Carbon Capture (AKT): Michie, Craig (Principal Investigator) Andonovic, Ivan (Co-investigator) Tachtatzis, Christos (Co-investigator); 12-Dec-2022 - 01-Apr-2023