Assistant Professor, Statistical Machine Learning, Department of Statistics, AUEB
Konstantinos P. Panousis
I am an Assistant Professor in the Statistics Department at the Athens University of Economics and Business. My expertise lies at the intersection of statistical machine learning, Bayesian deep learning, and interpretable AI. I design robust, multimodal models to solve complex, real-world problems.
Education
PhD In Statistical ML
Department of Informatics
NKUA
MRes in Computational Statistics and ML
Department of Computer Science
University College London
BEng in Electronic and Computer Engineering
Elecontric and Computer Engineering School
Technical University of Crete
Publications
Clarity: The Flexibility-Interpretability Trade-Off in Sparsity-aware Concept Bottleneck Models
Coarse-to-Fine Concept Bottleneck Models
Fully automatic extraction of morphological traits from the Web: utopia or reality?
DISCOVER: Making Vision Networks Interpretable via Competition and Dissection
Macroeconomic forecasting and sovereign risk assessment using deep learning techniques
Experience
Assistant Professor: Statistical Machine Learning
Department Of Statistics, AUEB, Athens, Greece
Feb 2025 – Present
Undergraduate Teaching: Introduction to Programming (Python) | Introduction to Database Management Systems | Machine Learning Postgraduate Teaching: Data Engineering (MSc in Statistics)
PostDoc Researcher: H2020-MSCA-RISE: AERAS
Ethical AI Novelties, Limassol, Cyprus
Feb 2024 – 2025
Objective: Development of ML‑based and data‑driven cybersecurity training programmes.
PostDoc Researcher: Towards Explainable AI for Species Identification
INRIA, Montpellier, France
April 2023 – September 2024
Objective: Developed inherently interpretable models via solid Variational Bayesian arguments.