Efstratios Palias received his BSc and MSc in Statistics from the university of Athens. After working in industry for a couple of years, he embarked on his PhD journey at University of Birmingham, under the supervision of Ata Kaban. His PhD thesis was titled "Exploiting Intrinsic Dimension using Compressed Quadratic Models” and explored some conditions under which learning from high-dimensional data can be done efficiently by randomly removing some variables. He worked extensively with tools from high-dimensional probability, including concentration of measure and random matrices. After submitting his PhD thesis in 2024, he was hired as a Teaching Fellow at the same school to teach mathematical- and AI-related courses. He has been involved in research in Quantum Machine Learning since 2025, in collaboration with colleagues.