Dimitris Zissis is an Associate Professor of Information and Communication Systems, at the Dept. of Product & Systems Design Engineering, University of Aegean (Greece), and Head of the Intelligent
Transportation Systems Lab. He is currently the National Representative to the Horizon Europe Programme Committee (PC) for “Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space”, while he has been a member of the High Level Expert
Groups on“Business-to-Government Data Sharing” and “Facilitating the use of new data sources for official statistics”. His professional experience includes several senior leadership positions in the deep
tech industry. His academic work has been published in more than 100 research papers, while the focus of his publications is on Information and Communications Systems, Big Data, AI and Machine Learning. His most frequently cited papers have more than 4400 citations, as measured by Google Scholar. According to [1] he has been included in the top 2% of scientists internationally in the field of “Information Systems” for four
consecutive years (2019, 2020, 2021), while according to Thomson Reuters, his paper “Addressing Cloud Computing Security Issues” with more than 2700 citations alone, is included in the most impactful
publications in computer science internationally (top 0,1% percentile).

[1] Ioannidis JPA, Boyack KW, Baas J (2020) Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators. PLOS Biology 18(10)