Sepi Chakaveh
Departmental Lecturer in Data Science & AI - UG Course Director in IT System Design, University of Oxford
Dr Sepideh (Sepi) Chakaveh has a degree in Electronics Engineering & a PhD in Experimental Astrophysics & Space Sciences. She has worked both in the UK & Germany as senior scientist/academic including, Imperial College, Max Planck Institute in Heidelberg, Fraunhofer Society & Southampton University where she was the co-founder and the former Director of Southampton Data Science Academy, the first UK on-line Data Science academy. Sepi is Research Common Room Member of Wolfson College Oxford, member of the advisory board of the Royal Holloway College Cyber Security Doctoral Training Centre, the winner of Everywoman Innovator Award 2020, and Technology Gamechanger 2021, Winner of The Innovation Excellence Streaming Platform of the Year 2022 and the Winner of Video AI Technology Specialists of the Year 2022, 5V DeepTech Ambassodor 2023 and OLLIE Researcher of 2025 Award Winner. Sepi is the inventor of PixselChat (flagship product of Pixsellar) a multiple award bearing next
Events Sepi Chakaveh has spoken at
- The AI Summit London 2026 10 June 2026 – 11 June 2026