Ioannis Vlahavas is a professor at the Department of Informatics at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He received his Ph.D. degree in Logic Programming Systems from the same University in 1988. He was a visiting scholar at the Department of CS at Purdue University, and in 2017, was elected EurAI Fellow by the European Association for Artificial Intelligence. He specializes in knowledge-based and AI (machine learning) systems and he has published more than 390 papers and book chapters, and co-authored 9 books in these areas. According to Google Scholar he has a number of citations exceeding 19280 and an h-index of 59. He has successfully supervised 18 PhD students and he has been involved in more than 50 research and development projects, leading most of them. He is currently leading the Intelligent Systems Lab. Details are provided at https://intelligence.csd.auth.gr/people/vlahavas/