George Kyriakides is a Ph.D. researcher, studying distributed neural architecture search. His interests and experience include the automated generation and optimization of predictive models for a wide array of applications, such as image recognition, time series analysis, and financial applications. He holds an M.Sc. in computational methods and applications, and a B.Sc. in applied informatics, both from the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece.

Konstantinos G. Margaritis has been a teacher and researcher in computer science for more than 30 years. His research interests include parallel and distributed computing, as well as computational intelligence and machine learning. He holds an M.Eng. in electrical engineering (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece), as well as an M.Sc. and a Ph.D. in computer science (Loughborough University, UK). He is a professor at the Department of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece.