Konstantinos I. Kotis has a B.Sc. in Computation from the University of Manchester (UMIST), UK, and a Ph.D. in Information Management (Knowledge Representation/Ontology Engineering) from the University of the Aegean, Greece. He worked as a post-doc researcher and adjunct lecturer at the AI Lab of the University of the Aegean (2015–2010), as an ERCIM “Allain Bensoussan” post-doc fellow at VTT Technical Research Center of Finland (2011–2012), and as a post-doc researcher at the University of Piraeus, Department of Digital Systems, AI Lab (2013–2018). He is currently a tenure-track associate professor at the University of the Aegean, Department of Cultural Informatics and Communication, i-Lab, and a research associate at the University of Piraeus, Department of Digital Systems, AI Lab. His research interests include knowledge/ontology engineering, semantic web technologies, semantic data management, semantic web of things, and KG-based conversational AI (chatbots). He has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conferences and served as a reviewer and PC member in several journals and conferences. He has also contributed to several national and European projects in different roles/positions.
George A. Vouros holds a B.Sc. in Mathematics (1986) and a Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence (1992), both from the University of Athens, Greece. Currently, he is a Professor at the Department of Digital Systems, University of Piraeus, and the head of the AI-Lab in this Department. His current interests include ontologies, agents and multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, imitation learning, and explainability.
