Haridimos Kondylakis is an Associate Professor of Big Data Engineering at the Computer Science Department, University of Crete, and an Affiliated Researcher at the Computational BioMedicine Laboratory (CBML), Institute of Computer Science, Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas (FORTH). He received his PhD in Computer Science from the University of Crete. His research interests span the following areas: semantic integration, knowledge evolution, applications of semantic technologies to eHealth systems, big data management, and AI-based data management. He has extensive experience participating in and leading more than 18 European projects. He has more than 250 publications in premier international conferences, books, and journals, including ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, VLDBJ, EDBT, JWS, and JBI. He has an h-index of 37 and more than 4,500 citations.