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Dr. Panagiotis P. Filntisis is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Institute of Robotics of Athena R.C, specializing in 3D computer vision, human modeling, and Affective Computing. His doctoral dissertation, which focused on Multimodal Deep Learning models for emotion recognition and facial expression synthesis, was awarded the Iakovos Gkiourounlian Prize, recognizing it as one of the best doctoral theses of industrial interest. Throughout his academic career, Dr. Filntisis has participated in four high-impact EU Horizon 2020 projects (BabyRobot, iMuSciCA, EASIER, PILLAR) as well as two national projects (e-Prevention, TeachBot). In these projects, he designed and implemented deep neural network architectures for emotion recognition from audio and video, as well as 3D talking head avatars for human-robot interaction. His research on emotion recognition from video won first prize in the international BEEU competition, as part of the ECCV 2020 conference. Additionally, he has organized two competitions at the international conferences ICASSP 2023 and 2024, focused on behavior recognition and psychotic disorders from biosignals. His research work has led to seven publications in international journals, 28 publications in peer-reviewed international conferences, and a book chapter on human emotion modeling. In total, his research has garnered over 450 citations with an h-index of 14 and an i-index of 18 (Source: Google Scholar, July 2024).