Yannis Manolopoulos holds a doctoral degree in Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (1986). He is Professor and Vice-Rector of the Open University of Cyprus as well as Professor Emeritus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has authored 6 monographs and 10 textbooks in Greek, as well as >350 scientific papers. He has received >15000 citations from >2300 institutions from >100 countries (h=56). He has also received 5 best paper awards from SIGMOD, ECML/PKDD, MEDES (2) and ISSPIT conferences. He has delivered keynote talks at 20 conferences at: Albania, Algeria, Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czechia, France, Greece, Italy, Kosovo, Lebanon, Luxembourg, Morocco, Poland, Romania and Russia. He serves on the Editorial Boards of the journals: Digital (EiC), Information Systems, World Wide Web, Computer Journal, Data Science and Analytics, as well as in the Board of the Research and Innovation Foundation of Cyprus.