Sepideh Chakaveh

Dr Sepideh (Sepi) Chakaveh is the CEO & Founder of Pixsellar and teaching Data Science, AI & Software Engineering at University of Oxford. Sepi is a 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 and 5V DeepTech Ambassador 2023.

Sepi 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 the inventor of PixselChat (flagship product of Pixsellar) a multiple award bearing next generation of data communication platforms with embedded real-time translation capabilities. PixselChat allows everyone to speak with others without knowing their language. PixselChat products are being currently used/licensed in various vertical industries, such as Mobile Telecommunication, Event Management, Cultural & Media Sector as well as Teaching & Learning where already piloted at the University of Oxford.