Iraklis Varlamis is Associate Professor of Data Management at the Department of Informatics and Telematics at the Harokopio University of Athens. His research interests span data-mining and knowledge extraction from social media, to intelligent systems and machine learning with application in recommender systems and personalization. He has co-authored three books and more than 130 papers concerning graph and text mining, data analytics, intelligent systems and personalization and has more than 2000 citations on his work. He holds a patent from the Greek Patent Office and an application pending from the US patent office. He is been involved on several EU funded projects concerning intelligent systems, machine learning, and data mining on the industrial and automotive domain. Bigomokero Antoine Bagula, holds a Ph.D. in Communication Systems from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, Sweden. He also obtained two MSc degrees: one in Computer Engineering from the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCL) in Belgium, and another in Computer Science from the University of Stellenbosch (SUN) in South Africa. Presently, Dr. Bagula serves as a full professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa, where he leads the Intelligent Systems and Advanced Telecommunication (ISAT) laboratory. Additionally, he holds a professorial position at Université Nouveaux Horizons (UNH) in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), where he is responsible for driving the institution's faculty of Informatics research agenda and enhancing its teaching curriculum. Prof. Bagula's research interests encompass various areas such as Data Engineering with a focus on Big Data Technologies, Cloud/Fog Computing, and Network Softwarization, including concepts like NFV and SDN. He actively explores the potential of the Internet of Things (IoT), covering both the Internet-of-Things and Tactile Internet-of-Things. Moreover, he delves into Data Science, particularly Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, and their applications in Big Data Analytics. Dr. Bagula's expertise extends to Next Generation Networks (NGN), including 5G/6G. Through his academic accomplishments and research pursuits, Dr. Bagula significantly contributes to the fields of computer science, data engineering, and telecommunications. Dr. Hossein Hassani is among the top 1% of scientists worldwide, according to the 2023 Elsevier and Stanford University ranking. He has over 15 years of extensive experience working with national, international, and multicultural organizations, research institutes, and academia. Dr. Hassani has published seven books and more than 200 articles. His research interests include digital twins, time series analysis and forecasting, AI, big data, data mining, as well as theoretical and applied statistics.
