Nicholas Zembashi is an architectural researcher and animator. Zembashi joined Forensic Architecture in 2018 after completing his Part II at the Architectural Association. His past research lies between architecture, media, and politics, and uses speculation and allegory to form essays in space. His most recent work investigated how identity is bound by a landscape of media, and how classification in machine learning reveals discriminatory biases that thwart the promise of a world without defined edges. Zembashi has previously worked in architectural practices in Cyprus and the UK. Since joining Forensic Architecture his research has focused on police-violence cases such as the killings of Zak Kostopoulos in Athens and Harith Augustus in Chicago, as well as on the development of machine learning tools, with a focus on synthetic data, that culminated in The Battle of Ilovaisk and the Model Zoo projects.