Konstantinos Kotis is Associate Professor in the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean, Greece, and Team Leader at the Intelligent Systems Laboratory (i-Lab). He holds a B.Sc. in Computation from the University of Manchester (UMIST), UK, and a Ph.D. in Information Management (Knowledge Representation and Ontology Engineering) from the University of the Aegean. His research interests include knowledge and ontology engineering, semantic web technologies, semantic data management, semantic Internet of Things, and knowledge graph–based conversational AI. He has authored more than 150 peer-reviewed international journal and conference publications and has contributed to several national and European research projects. His work has been widely cited and he serves as reviewer and program committee member for leading venues in his field.