# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/maria-petrou
# Generated: 2026-08-13T15:17:50.934Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/maria-petrou"
name: "Maria Petrou"
slug: "maria-petrou"
description: "Maria Petrou FREng was a Greek-born British scientist who specialised in the fields of artificial intelligence and machine vision. She developed a number of novel image recognition techniques, taught at Surrey University and Imperial College London, and was a prolific author of scientific articles."
tagline: "AI researcher"
gender: "female"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-05-17"
deathDate: "2012-10-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.05
  momentum:             6.428571428571429
  historical:           7.00234
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  45
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F"
    title: "Петру, Мария"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_%D8%A8%D8%AA%D8%B1%D9%88"
    title: "ماريا بترو"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9C%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%82%D1%80%D1%83"
    title: "Мария Петру"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Petrou"
    title: "Maria Petrou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B1_%CE%A0%CE%AD%CF%84%CF%81%CE%BF%CF%85"
    title: "Μαρία Πέτρου"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maria_Petrou"
    title: "Maria Petrou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%ADa_P%C3%A9trou"
    title: "María Pétrou"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D5%84%D5%A1%D6%80%D5%AB%D5%A1_%D5%8A%D5%A5%D5%BF%D6%80%D5%B8%D6%82"
    title: "Մարիա Պետրու"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6761495"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump