Maja Pantic
Maja Pantic researches face and body gestures, affective computing and multimodal human-computer interaction. Her career links university research with industrial AI leadership. Pantic received her computer-science doctorate from Delft in 2001. She was an assistant and associate professor there from 2001 to 2005 and researched face and body gestures and affective computing. She joined Imperial as a lecturer in April 2006 and became professor of affective and behavioural computing in October 2010. She continued to study machine analysis of human non-verbal behaviour. The ERC-funded MAHNOB project ran from September 2008 to September 2013. The project focused on multimodal analysis of naturalistic human non-verbal behaviour.
- Now at
- Imperial College London
- Works
- 518
- Citations
- 40,104
- h-index
- 95
Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.
Timeline
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2001–2005
Delft research
Pantic received her computer-science doctorate from Delft in 2001. She was an assistant and associate professor there from 2001 to 2005 and researched face and body gestures and affective computing.
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2006–2010
Imperial appointment
She joined Imperial as a lecturer in April 2006 and became professor of affective and behavioural computing in October 2010. She continued to study machine analysis of human non-verbal behaviour.
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2008–2013
Naturalistic behaviour research
The ERC-funded MAHNOB project ran from September 2008 to September 2013. The project focused on multimodal analysis of naturalistic human non-verbal behaviour.
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2018–2020
Samsung AI Centre
From April 2018 to April 2020, she was research director of the Samsung AI Centre in Cambridge. She helped establish the centre and recruit its machine-learning and computer-vision team.
Sources and credits
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