George Yannis is Professor in Traffic and Safety Engineering with particular focus on Data Science and Director of Traffic Engineering Laboratory of the School of Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). For more than 30 years, he has contributed extensively in more than 350 research and engineering projects and studies and in several scientific committees of the European Commission and other International Organisations (UNECE, OECD, WHO, World Bank, EIB, CEDR, ERF, IRF, PIARC, UITP, ETSC, ECTRI, WCTR, TRB). He has published more than 1.100 scientific papers (303 in scientific journals) widely cited worldwide.