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Dr. Konstantina Bereta is Director of Research Labs at Kpler and a computer scientist specializing in big data, artificial intelligence, and geospatial analytics. She holds a BSc, MSc, and PhD in Computer Science from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens.
With more than a decade of research experience, she has co-authored over 50 peer-reviewed publications on AI, satellite data processing, and multimodal maritime data analysis. Before joining Kpler, she was a Senior Researcher at MarineTraffic, acquired by Kpler in 2023. Konstantina also served on the Board of Directors of the EU AI, Data and Robotics Association (ADRA) from 2022 to 2024.
At Kpler, she leads research initiatives applying AI and big data to maritime challenges such as vessel tracking, anomaly detection, and situational awareness. Her work connects academic research with industrial innovation in maritime analytics.
Professor Georgios Chalkiadakis (Phd University of Toronto, 2007) is a faculty member of the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the Technical University of Crete since Μarch 2011. His research interests lie mainly in the area of Multiagent Systems (MAS) – and, more specifically, involve decision making under uncertainty and reinforcement learning in MAS environments; coordination and cooperation in MAS; cooperative game theory; and AI and MAS for the social good (including Smart Grid research). He is a co-author of the graduate level textbook “Computational Aspects of Cooperative Game Theory” (Morgan and Claypool, 2011). He has also co-authored 4 book chapters in scientific collections, and more than 100 peer-reviewed research papers in journals and conferences in his areas of expertise (several of which have received awards or award nominations). He has so far graduated 4 PhD, 12 MSc, and more than 50 MEng-level students. Georgios has participated in 17 national or European research projects. He has served in the Editorial Board of the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research (JAIR), and has had several senior roles in various journals and conferences. Between 2019-2022 he served as the Deputy Chair and then the Chair of the European Association for Multi-Agent Systems (EURAMAS). Between 2015 and 2019 Georgios served as the General Secretary of the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society (EETN). More details on Georgios and his research can be found at: http://www.intelligence.tuc.gr/~gehalk
Dr. Das is Associate Dean for Research in the College of Engineering and a Distinguished University Chair Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at The University of Texas at Arlington. He also directs the Center for Artificial Intelligence and Big Data (CARIDA), the Smart Agriculture Research Center (SARC), and the Database Exploration Laboratory (DBXLAB). Prior to joining UTA in 2004, he worked at Microsoft Research, Compaq, and the University of Memphis. He earned his B.Tech from IIT Kanpur and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He is a Fellow of both IEEE and ACM.
His early research made foundational contributions to computational geometry and graph theory. His work later expanded to big data, spanning data management, analytics, machine learning, and data mining. He has contributed to keyword search in databases, time-series mining, approximate query processing, and deep web analytics, and fairness and explainability in data systems. Dr. Das has published over 200 papers, received major research awards, and served in leadership roles such as General Chair of SIGMOD/PODS 2018, Program Chair of ICDE 2024, and editorial boards of leading journals. His research has been supported by major federal agencies and industry partners.
Rommert Dekker is an emeritus professor of Quantitative Logistics at the Econometric Institute of the Erasmus University of Rotterdam. Prior to becoming a university professor he worked for 7 weeks with Shell, both in research as well as in their central office. He has worked on maintenance optimization, reverse and sustainable logistics, as well on container terminal and shipping optimization.
Dr. Yashar Ghiassi-Farrokhfal is a Senior Associate Professor (with ius promovendi) at the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. Additionally, he serves as the academic director of smart energy and sustainability at the Erasmus Center for Data Analytics (ECDA) and holds the position of Erasmus Uni. scientific lead at the Centre of Energy System Intelligence (CESI). He obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, Canada, and has numerous publications in esteemed journals, focusing on the topic of energy transition. Dr. Ghiassi-Farrokhfal has been continuously invited as guest speaker in leading energy discussion stages such as the ‘World Energy Congress (WEC)’, and has organized numerous conferences and workshops in the field of energy transition.
He has secured multiple large grants (total value of~75M Euros) to work on European and Dutch projects, including UTOPYS (largest digital twin for electricty networks), MODES (Data layer in energy markets), HyTROS (Hydrogen market), Com2Heat (composite-based heat network), MAGPIE (Energy transition in Ports), FlexSUS (municipal heat transition).
Employing a multi-disciplinary approach, he has delved into diverse facets of energy transitions such as sector coupling, microgrids, electric vehicles, hydrogen, energy storage, and market mechanisms at retail, wholesale, peer-to-peer, and bilateral levels. Notably, his recent interests include investigating the role of energy data and the associated challenges in the context of the digital energy transition.
Haridimos Kondylakis is an Associate Professor of Big Data Engineering at the Computer Science Department, University of Crete, and an Affiliated Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science FORTH. In the past, he has participated in more that 27 EU research projects with a total budget over 100Mie and he is currently participating in five H2020 EU projects (MULTIPULM, PATH, SUNRISE, ALTHEA, EUCAIM) and one national research project (DEDALUS as PI). He has more than 280 publications in international conferences, books, and journals, including ACM SIGMOD, VLDB, JWS, KER, EDBT, ISWC, ESWC, etc. He is the organizer of the International Workshop on Semantic Web Technologies for Health Data Management and the leader of the Data Storage, Curation, and Management Working Group of the EU Commission for the AI for health imaging projects. He also acts as a regular reviewer and a PC member for a number of premier journals and conferences, such as WWW, EDBT, SIGMOD, VLDBJ, JWS, JODS, CIKM, ISWC, etc. He has an H-index of 40.
Pavlos is a Professor of Computer Science at Université Paris Cité, where he leads the Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) Group and directs the DAI Master's program. He served as Director of the LIPADE laboratory (2009–2019) and holds degrees including a Ph.D. and Habilitation for Research Supervising in Artificial Intelligence from Paris Dauphine University. Before academia, he worked as a consulting engineer at Capgemini. His research focuses on intelligent agents, multi-agent systems, and computational argumentation. His recent work introduces a neuro-symbolic AI approach that combines generative AI and LLMs with computational argumentation, supporting the no-code development of autonomous agents and multi-agent systems, particularly well suited to decision-making in high-stakes domains such as law, health, finance, and defense. He has led and participated in several European and industrial projects, collaborating with companies like SingularLogic and THALES. Since 2019, he is co-founder and CEO of ARGUMENT THEORY, which develops rAIson, a no-code symbolic AI platform for automated decision-making. He has also held leadership roles in EURAMAS and co-founded the International Workshop Series on Argumentation in Multi-Agent Systems.
Eirini Nikoloudi is a Civil Engineer holding a PhD in Water Informatics and Engineering from the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. She specializes in smart water networks, leak management, and water infrastructure systems. Her professional experience spans both the public and private sectors, including technical project support, construction and design projects, and research collaborations in Greece and the UK. She has also contributed to research and development initiatives in the water industry and participated in environmental and coastal engineering projects.
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