Gregoris Mentzas

Professor

ICCS/NTUA

Gregoris Mentzas is full Professor of Management Information Systems, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and Founder and Director of the Information Management Unit (IMU) at the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems (ICCS).

His main research focus is on AI-enabled decision making: augmenting human intelligence with data-driven approaches and using Artificial Intelligence to elevate human decision-making competence. Specifically his current research concerns the development of prescriptive data analytics for digital assistants in industry 4.0, the integration of human feedback in reinforcement learning for financial applications and the use of big data analytics in applications like personalised health, smart mobility, technology acceptance and water management.

Prof. Mentzas has published 4 books and more than 300 papers in international peer-reviewed journals and conferences, has 5 best papers awards. He sits on the editorial board of five international journals and has served as (co-)Chair or Program Committee Member in more than 55 international conferences. He has led or contributed in more than 50 European research and development projects conducted in collaboration with leading technology firms like SAP, IBM, HP, Siemens, Software AG and ATOS.

Sessions in which Gregoris Mentzas attends

Wednesday 1 September, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Brussels

3:15 PM

Designing Data Spaces in Real Llife

1 hour, 3:15 PM - 4:15 PM

Edward Curry, Big Data Value Association (BDVA) (Speaker)

Tuomo Tuikka, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland (Speaker)

Gianfranco Cecconi, Capgemini Invent (Speaker)

Angelo Marguglio, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SPA (Speaker)

Herman Pals, TNO ICT (Speaker)

Introducing data spaces into society makes us designers of a new world exploiting the sharing of data in a totally new way. As designers, we need t...

4:30 PM

Trustworthiness for Industrial AI

1 hour, 4:30 PM - 5:30 PM

Sonja Zillner, BDVA (Speaker)

Luis Usatorre, Tecnalia Research & Innovation (Speaker)

Jan de Bruyne, CITIP (Speaker)

Ray Walshe, Dublin City University (Speaker)

Michael van Hartskamp, Philips (Speaker)

Between smart machines, at the low end, and artificial systems with own legal or even ethical status, at the high end - that is where Artificial...

5:45 PM

SMART WATER MANAGEMENT

1 hour, 5:45 PM - 6:45 PM

Mr. Juan Manuel Fernández Montenegro, AIMEN (Speaker)

Mr. Nicolas Caradot, Kompetenzzentrum Wasser Berlin gGmbH (Speaker)

Mr. Anastasios Karakostas, ITI-CERTH (Speaker)

Ms Lydia Vamvakeridou, FIWARE4Water (Speaker)

Anna Brékine, Mandat International (Moderator)

Andreas Englund, IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute. (Speaker)

Water is the source of life. While some parts of the world can access water easily and at an economical rate, others pray for water consumption ...

Thursday 2 September, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Brussels

9:00 AM

5G for Connected & Automated Mobility Summit I

1 hour 30 minutes, 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM

Jorge Pereira, European Commission (Moderator)

Coen Bresser, ERTICO (Speaker)

Irene Saco, CTAG (Speaker)

Nazli Guney, Turkcell (Speaker)

In the context of the European 5G Action Plan, the mobility vertical, spanning road, rail, water ways and coastal maritime, includi...

4:00 PM

IoT AND EDGE COMPUTING STANDARDIZATION CHALLENGES

1 hour, 4:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Georgios Karagiannis, Huawei Technologies Duesseldorf GmbH (Speaker)

Anna Brékine, Mandat International (Speaker)

Adrian Quesada Rodríguez, Mandat International (Moderator)

Olaf-Gerd Gemein, Smart Cities Lab (Speaker)

Svetoslav Mihaylov, European Commission (Speaker)

The expansion of the IoT and edge computing landscape has brought opportunities but also new challenges. Standards have an essential role in the...

5:15 PM

SEMANTIC TUTORIALS

1 hour, 5:15 PM - 6:15 PM

Martin Bauer, NEC Laboratories Europe (Moderator)

Dave Raggett, W3C (Speaker)

María Poveda Villalón, Ontology Engineering Group - Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Speaker)

Amelie Gyrard, Trialog (Speaker)

Mr Raúl García Castro, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Speaker)

The tutorial will introduce the idea of semantic interoperability and the use of ontologies. Participants will learn what an ontology is and how it...

Friday 3 September, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT+01:00) Brussels

9:00 AM

INDUSTRIAL IoT: TOWARDS THE INDUSTRY 5.0 REVOLUTION

1 hour 15 minutes, 9:00 AM - 10:15 AM

Pedro Maló, UNPARALLEL (Moderator)

Mr Alessandro Liani, Video Systems (Speaker)

Roberto Siagri (Keynote speaker)

Sean O´Reagain, European Commission (Speaker)

Natalie Samovich, ENERCOUTIM (Speaker)

Disclosing the key role of IoT in the so-called 4.0 revolution and how it is intertwined with other technologies that are going to fundamentally tr...

11:45 AM

IoT DATA INTEROPERABILITY

1 hour, 11:45 AM - 12:45 PM

Dave Raggett, W3C (Speaker)

Marco Carugi, ITU-T SG20 and AIOTI WG03 (Speaker)

Bilel Jamoussi, ITU/AI4GOOD (Speaker)

Adrian Quesada Rodríguez, Mandat International (Moderator)

The data interoperability in the context of the Internet of Things (IoT) has several issues to be solved by the research community. For instance...

3:45 PM

AI & Edge for Industrial IoT

1 hour, 3:45 PM - 4:45 PM

Ovidiu Vermesan, SINTEF (Speaker)

Mario Díaz Nava, ST Microelectronics (Speaker)

Mathias Schneider, Technical University of Applied Sciences Amberg-Weiden (Speaker)

Josip Josifovski, Technical University of Munich (Speaker)

Artificial intelligence and industrial internet of things, IIoT, are enablers for digitising industries. The progress in technology...