Yannis Manolopoulos is a Professor and Vice-rector of the Open University of Cyprus. He received a five-year Diploma Degree in Electrical Engineering and a Ph.D. in Computer Engineering, both from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (AUTH). He has been with the University of Toronto, the University of Maryland at College Park, the University of Cyprus, the Hellenic Open University, and AUTH, where he served as Head of the School of Informatics. He has also served as Rector of the University of Western Macedonia in Greece and Vice-Chair of the Greek Computer Society. His research interest focuses on Data Management. He has co-authored 5 monographs and 11 textbooks in Greek, as well as >300 journal and conference papers. He has received >14, 700 citations from >2, 200 distinct academic institutions (h-index=57). He has also received 5 best paper awards from SIGMOD, ECML/PKDD, MEDES (2), and ISSPIT conferences and has been invited as keynote speaker at 20 international events. He has served as the main co-organizer of several CORE A/B conferences: SSTD 2003, SSDBM 2004, ADBIS 2006, ICANN 2010, WISE 2013, CAISE 2014, TPDL 2017, DASFAA 2018, IDEAS 2019, WI 2019, and SOFSEM 2020. He has also acted as an evaluator for funding agencies in Austria, Canada, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, EU, Georgia, Greece, Hong-Kong, Israel, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, and Russia. Currently, he serves on the Editorial Boards of the following journals (among others): Information Systems, World Wide Web, Computer Journal, Data Science and Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence Tools.