Manolis Koubarakis

University of Athens, Greece

Title: Question answering over geospatial knowledge graphs

Manolis Koubarakis is Professor in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications of the University of Athens and Director of Graduate Studies. He previously held positions at the Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete (Assistant and Associate Professor), the Dept. of Informatics, University of Athens (Visiting Researcher), Dept. of Computation, UMIST (Lecturer) and Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London (Research Associate). He has published more than 200 papers that have been widely cited in the areas of Artificial Intelligence (especially Knowledge Representation and Constraint Satisfaction), Databases, Semantic Web and Linked Data, Knowledge Graphs, and Distributed Systems. His research has been financially supported by the European Commission, the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation, the Greek General Secretariat for Research and Technology and industry sources. He is a Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (EurAI) and current President of the Hellenic Artificial Intelligence Society.

Dimitris Angelakis

Director of Institute of Quantum Computing and Quantum Technologies, EKEFE, Demokritos, Greece

Title: Analog and qubit efficient quantum computing

Dimitris Angelakis is a visiting Professor at Centre for Quantum Technologies, Singapore and Director of Institute of Quantum Computing and Quantum Technologies, EKEFE, Demokritos. He is leading the Quantum Simulators and Quantum Technologies Group. Experienced research professor in quantum physics, PhD from Imperial College with several years of research experience and leading research groups in Cambridge University, Greece and Singapore. He is known for his works in quantum simulation. He has received several awards including the 2018 Google Quantum Innovation Award, the Valerie Myerscough Award from University of London 2000, as well as the Institute of Physics Quantum Electronics Thesis Prize 2002. His work has appeared in Science, Nature, New Scientist, Nature Research Highlights, The Innovation Magazine, Physics World, CNN and SKY among others. He regularly delivers talks about quantum computing to non-specialist audiences and consults industry, banking and IT sectors about the upcoming revolution in quantum computing and possible commercial applications.