About
Filippo
Varini
Researcher in AI for ocean conservation. Surfer, sailor and certified diver and freediver. I connect the engineers building the tools with the scientists and explorers who use them.
Trajectory
Where I've been working.
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2026 to present
AI PhD researcher, Imperial College London
Computer vision and multimodal AI for marine biodiversity monitoring.
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2024 to 2026
AI Lead, OceanX
Leading the deployment of a AI system that analyse deep sea videos 40 times faster than manual annotation with comparable accuracy. Deployed it to expeditions on board the OceanXplorer in Cabo Verde, Singapore and Timor Leste.
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2023 to 2024
Founder, Imperial Climate Pre-Accelerator
Built and ran an accelerator that launched 30+ climate-tech startups across two cohorts. Featured in Forbes; nominated Climate Innovator by UNICEF.
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2023 to 2024
Forward Deployed Engineer, Palantir
Deployed AI and software in the automotive, aviation and climate sectors, delivering and creating multi-million-dollar contracts.