Stefanos Kollias, FIEEE, FHEA, has been a Professor in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the National Technical University of Athens, since 1997. He has been a Professor of Machine Learning in the School of Computer Science of the University of Lincoln, UK, 2016-19. He has been Chairman of the Greek National Infrastructures for Research and Technology, since 2019, assisting the Hellenic Ministry of Digital Governance in the digital transformation of public administration. He has also been member of the Executive Committee of the European Neural Network Society, 2007-2016; member of the Member States Expert Group on Digitization and Digital Preservation, 2007-2016; member of the European Commission Expert Group on Cultural Heritage (responsible for AI), since 2019. His research covers machine & deep learning and artificial intelligence, multimedia analysis, search, retrieval, and recognition, and their application in vision, healthcare, cultural heritage, human-computer interaction, agri-food, industrial monitoring, and anomaly prediction. He has published 110 journals and 310 conference papers. His work has been highly cited (12,500 citations; h-index 54 in Google Scholar). He has supervised 45 Ph.D. students. He has led his Group's participation in more than 100 European research projects, with funding of more than 20 Meuro.