Athena Vakali is is a Professor and Vice Chair at the School of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where she leads the research Laboratory on Data and Web science (Datalab). She holds a PhD degree in Informatics (Aristotle University), a MSc degree in Computer Science (Purdue University, USA) and a BSc in Mathematics (Aristotle University). Her current research interests include big data mining and analytics, AI algorithms for Next Generation Internet, smart cities data analytics, online social networks mining, as well as on online sources data management on the cloud. Her publication record of over 160 papers received over 7200 citations (h-index 35 in Google scholar). She has served as a member in the EU Steering Committee for the Future Internet Assembly (2012-14) and she has participated in more than 30 research projects (EU H2020, FP7, Erasmus+ , International and national funds) related to ICT, Next Generation Internet, Collective awareness and quality research funds (Marie-Curie). She has acted as the principal investigator in 15 research projects over the last 5 years, while she is currently involved in 9 research projects. She has co-chaired major Conferences Committees such as IEEE/ACM/WIC Web Intelligence 2019, EAI 2016 Conference on Future Internet Infrastructures, Enablers and EU Internet Science Conference 2015, ACM International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering, etc.Specialties: Web Information Systems, Big data analytics, online social networks analytics,Smart cities and IoT data integration, Content Delivery Technologies, Internet Technologies,Cloud-based evolving data analytics