Zafeirios Fountas
Principal Research Scientist And Group Leader at Huawei
Stony Stratford, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolZafeirios Fountas is a principal research scientist and group leader at Huawei with over a decade of experience developing brain-inspired AI systems that bridge cognitive neuroscience and machine learning. He focuses on self-motivated, unsupervised reinforcement learning, deep generative models and long-term episodic memory to push toward more general and biologically grounded intelligence. His academic background includes a PhD and teaching posts at Imperial College London and an honorary fellowship at UCL, and he has helped found tech ventures where research met product during his time at Emotech and Pandora Robotics. Known for combining rigorous theory with practical implementations, he leads teams that translate cognitive principles into scalable agent architectures. Based in the UK, he brings an unusual mix of academic depth and startup founding experience, enabling him to steer long-term research agendas while keeping an eye on real-world impact.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Erasmus exchange, Erasmus exchange at City University (GB)PhD, PhD at Imperial College LondonBsc, Bsc at Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH)
Greek, English
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Github Skills (35)
machine-learning-models9
cognitive-science9
monte-carlo-tree-search9
monte-carlo9
variational-inference8
deep-learning6
inference6
machine-learning6
console6
quake5
face4
hotkeys4
windows4
command-line4
splits4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zfountas/deep-active-inference-mc
Jun 2020 - Oct 2021
Deep active inference agents using Monte-Carlo methods
Contributions:17 commits, 1 PR, 20 pushes in 1 year 4 months
deep-learninginferenceagentsmachine-learningmonte-carlo
zfountas/zfountas.github.io
Jul 2019 - Jan 2021
Contributions:99 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
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