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Ion Androutsopoulos

Professor, Athens University of Economics and Business

Ion Androutsopoulos is Professor of Artificial Intelligence and head of the Natural Language Processing Group in the Department of Informatics, Athens University of Economics and Business. His current research interests include: question answering, esp. for biomedical document collections; natural language generation, recently from medical images; text classification, incl. filtering abusive content; information extraction and opinion mining, incl. legal text analytics and sentiment analysis; NLP tools for Greek; machine learning in NLP, esp. deep learning; NLP in digital curation.

Vangelis Karkaletsis

Director, Institute of Informatics and Telecommunications- NCSR Demokritos

Vangelis Karkaletsis is Director of the Institute of Informatics & Telecommunications (IIΤ) at NCSR Demokritos, and Member of the National Commission for Bioethics & Technoethics. His research interests are in the areas of content analysis, big data management, knowledge representation, human-machine interaction. Coordinator, scientific and technical manager of many European and national projects and organiser of numerous international conferences, workshops and summer schools. Having been responsible for the Institute's educational activities for more than 10 years, he initiated the joint PhD scholarship programme with several Universities abroad, and launched the MSc in Data Science and MSc in Artificial Intelligence programmes for NCSR Demokritos.

Efthimios Kaxiras

Professor, Harvard University

Efthimios Kaxiras received his PhD in theoretical condensed matter physics from MIT. He has been a faculty member at Harvard University for over 30 years, where he holds the Chair of John Hasbrouck Van Vleck Professor of Pure and Applied Physics and is also Professor of Applied Mathematics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He served as Chair of the Harvard Physics Department (2020-2023). His research interests encompass a wide range of topics in the physics of solids and fluids, including the development of methods for realistic modeling of materials using multiscale approaches, and Machine Learning methods.

Konstantina Nikita

Professor, National Technical University of Athens

Konstantina Nikita, M.Eng., M.D., Ph.D., is Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens and the Irene McCulloch Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Medicine at Viterbi School of Engineering and Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), a Founding Fellow of the European Association of Medical and Biological Engineering and Science (EAMBES), and a Fellow of the American Institute of Medical and Biological Engineering (AIMBE). She is the Editor-in-Chief of the IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation.

Her current research interests include intelligent health systems, medical decision support, biomedical informatics, biomedical image computing and analytics, physiological systems modeling and identification, and computational bioelectromagnetics. She has received various awards, among which the Bodossakis Foundation Academic Prize for exceptional achievements in “Theory and Applications of Information Technology in Medicine”.

Georgia Perakis

Professor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Georgia Perakis is the William F. Pounds Professor of Management at the MIT Sloan School, an Associate Dean for SERC (Social and Ethical Responsibility of Computing) in the Schwarzman College of Computing and MIT Sloan, the Co-Director of the Operations Research Center at MIT and the Editor in Chief of the M&SOM journal. Over the years, she has taught in a variety of programs across MIT. For her teaching, she won the Graduate Student Council Teaching Award in 2002, the Jamieson Prize in 2014 for excellence in teaching and the Teacher of the Year award in 2017.

For her research, she has received several awards including the CAREER Award from NSF and the PECASE Award from the Office of the President on Science and Technology. In 2016, she was elected as an INFORMS Fellow, and in 2021 as Distinguished MSOM Fellow.

Perakis has passion supervising students and has graduated thirty PhD and fifty-six Masters students. In 2012, she received the Samuel M. Seegal Award for inspiring student to achieve excellence.

Demetri Psaltis

Professor, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

Demetri Psaltis is Professor of Optics and the Director of the Optics Laboratory at the Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne (EPFL). He was educated at Carnegie-Mellon University where he received the Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Economics in 1974, the Master's in 1975, and the PhD in Electrical Engineering in 1977. In 1980, he joined the faculty at the California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, California where he held the Thomas G. Myers Chair in Electrical Engineering. He served as Executive Officer for the Computation and Neural Systems department from 1992-1996. From 1996 until 1999 he was the Director of the National Science Foundation research center on Neuromorphic Systems Engineering at Caltech. In 2004 he established at Caltech the Center for Optofluidic Integration and he served as the director until he moved to EPFL in 2006 where he established his research lab and served as dean of the engineering school for 10 years. His research interests are imaging, machine learning, biophotonics, nonlinear optics, and optofluidics. He has over 400 publications in these areas. Dr. Psaltis is a fellow of the IEEE, the Optical Society of America, the European Optical Society and the Society for Photo-optical Systems Engineering (SPIE). He received the International Commission of Optics Prize, the Humboldt Award, the Leith Medal, the Gabor Prize and the Joseph Fraunhofer Award/Robert M. Burley Prize.

Spyros Raptis

Head of TTS R&D, INNOETICS Text-to-Speech Technologies

Spyros Raptis is Head of Text-to-Speech R&D at Samsung Hellas. Before joining Samsung he was the Director of the Institute for Language and Speech Processing, “Athena” Research Center, and co-founder of INNOETICS startup company until it was acquired by Samsung Electronics. He holds an MSc and PhD from the National Technical University of Athens. His research interests include speech analysis, modeling and generation, voice assistants and speech-enabled applications and services, tools for accessibility etc.

Haralambos Sarimveis

Professor, National Technical University of Athens

Harry Sarimveis received a Diploma in Chemical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1990 and an MSc and PhD in control engineering and machine learning from Texas A&M University in 1990 and 1992, respectively. In September 2000, he became a Lecturer in the School of Chemical Engineering at NTUA. Since 2016, he has been a Full Professor and heads the "Unit of Process Control and Informatics."

His research interests include mathematical modelling and optimization, automatic control, data analytics and machine learning, and cheminformatics. He has co-authored more than 130 scientific papers.

Theodora Varvarigou

Professor, National Technical University of Athens

Theodora Varvarigou is a professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). Since June 2019, she serves as the Chair of the Board of Directors of Athens Water Supply and Sewerage Company (EYDAP S.A.) which is also listed in the Athens stock exchange.

Her research is making an impact on cutting-edge technologies, such as data analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, Cloud computing, big data technologies, IoT technologies, semantic web, social networking technologies etc. She has published more than 500 papers in leading international journals, conferences and books. She has also participated and co-ordinated more than 60 EC projects.