Dr. Ioannis (Yiannis) Kompatsiaris is the Director of CERTH-ITI and the Head of Multimedia Knowledge and Social Media Analytics Laboratory. His research interests include ΑΙ/ML for multimedia, Semantics, Social Media and Big Data Analytics, Multimodal and Sensors Data Analysis, Brain–Computer Interfaces, e- Health, Cultural, Media/Journalism and Security applications. He is the co-author of 222 papers in refereed journals, 69 book chapters, 10 patents and 641 papers in international conferences. Google Scholar reports an h-index=68. He has been the co-chair of various international conferences and has served as a regular reviewer, associate and guest editor for a number of journals and conferences. He is a member of the National Ethics and Technoethics Committee, the Scientific Advisory Board of the CHIST-ERA funding programme and has been an elected member of the IEEE IVMSP - TC. He is an ELLIS Fellow and a Senior Member of IEEE and ACM.