Christoforos Anagnostopoulos is a Chief Causal AI Officer and seasoned innovation leader with a decade of experience bridging academia, consultancies, tech unicorns and biopharma to accelerate scientific discovery with causal AI. With a PhD in Mathematics and roles from Imperial College to QuantumBlack and Valo Health, he combines deep theoretical expertise in statistics and real-time ML with hands-on product and engineering leadership. He co-founded Mentat Innovations, building privacy-respecting real-time data analysis and an open-source anomaly detection framework (datastream.io), and previously led research on digital twins and synthetic environments at Improbable. Known for translating rigorous mathematical ideas into production-grade systems, he also teaches ethics in AI and data science at Imperial College, underscoring his commitment to responsible deployment. Based in London with Greek roots, he blends academic rigor, entrepreneurial grit and practical engineering to push causal methods into industry-scale impact.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MSc Informatics and Learning from Data (distinction), MSc Informatics and Learning from Data (distinction) at The University of Edinburgh
PhD Mathematics, PhD Mathematics at Imperial College London
MSc Mathematical Logic and Theory of Algorithms (distinction), MSc Mathematical Logic and Theory of Algorithms (distinction) at Ethnikon kai Kapodistriakon Panepistimion Athinon
BAHons Mathematics (2:1), BAHons Mathematics (2:1) at University of Cambridge
An open-source framework for real-time anomaly detection using Python, ElasticSearch and Kibana
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Data Scientist
Contributions:42 commits, 5 pushes, 8 branches in 5 months
Contributions summary:Christoforos primarily contributed to the development of an anomaly detection framework. Their work involved implementing object-oriented anomaly detectors in Python, particularly Gaussian and Percentile based methods. Key contributions included the design and implementation of update and scoring functions for the detectors, along with testing and debugging to ensure accurate anomaly detection. The user also worked on integrating the detectors with the framework's data processing pipeline.
Contributions:15 commits, 9 pushes, 4 branches in 2 years 1 month
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Christoforos Anagnostopoulos - Tech Fellow Partner at Imperial College London