Pantelis John (PJ) Beaghton is a Professor of Practice in Computing at Imperial College London. He is also a Security Science Fellow of the Institute for Security Science and Technology and co-leads the Imperial College Network of Excellence in Financial Technology (FinTech).

 

His financial security research and consulting activity with the private and the public sector combines AI/ML and financial industry expertise (a) to identify security threats to the financial markets such as the contagion across exchanges, products and regions of intended or accidental disruptive shocks in the electronic securities and derivative markets, and (b) to perform forensic analysis of complex transactions in securities and derivatives in order to identify suspicious patterns linked to money laundering and other criminal activities.

 

He is also involved in research with the Target Malaria consortium on reaction-diffusion systems and stochastic simulations and agent/individual-based models of vector population dynamics. The primary focus is on modelling the usage of selfish genetic elements to genetically manipulate natural populations of mosquitoes that transmit malaria.