Dr. Panagiotis Michailidis is currently a Post-Doc Research Associate at the Information Technologies Institute (ITI), of the Centre for Research & Technology Hellas (CERTH), while also serving as a Post-Doc Researcher at the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH). He received a postgraduate diploma (M.Sc.) from the Department of Environmental Engineering of DUTH Polytechnic School. In the following years, he conducted a Philosophy Doctorate Thesis (Ph.D.) in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of DUTH. He focuswa on research regarding control system engineering, neural networks, distributing machine learning, model parallelism, and asynchronous deep learning in large-scale IoT applications. He has actively participated in more than 12 European (H2020 & FP7) and 3 National projects that concern research and innovation.

Dr. Iakovos Theodorou Michailidis graduated from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of Polytechnic School, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, in November 2010. During his undergraduate studies, he worked on the selective coordination of protective devices and short circuit analysis (IEC60909) on energy distribution networks within his diploma thesis. He received his Ph.D. from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the Polytechnic School in Democritus University of Thrace in April 2016. His main research interests during his post-graduate studies were related to optimal and adaptive control in large-scale sensor networks. He is currently conducting research in the area of energy-efficient building climate control. In addition, he is occupied with research areas related to locally linearized system identification, convex control design transformations, model-based and model-free (adaptive) techniques for efficient control in large-scale systems, and distributed (agent-driven) adaptive and optimal control in cyber–physical systems.

Dr. Kosmatopoulos is an Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Democritus University of Thrace, Greece. He was an Assistant Professor with the Department of Production Engineering and Management, Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece, and Deputy Director of the Dynamic Systems and Simulation Laboratory at TUC. Prior to joining TUC, he was Research Assoc. and Assist. Professor at the Department of Electrical Engineering Systems, University of Southern California (USC), and a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Victoria, B.C., Canada. Dr. Kosmatopoulos has been involved in various applied research projects. While in the U.S., he was involved as the Principal Investigator, Co-Principal Investigator, or Technical Consultant in many research projects funded by NASA, the Department of Transportation's Air Force, and the private sector. Currently, he is involved in research projects (funded by the EU, the Greek Secretariat of Research & Development, and the private sector) involving energy-positive buildings, robotic swarms, and intelligent transportation systems.