Ioannis Emiris is President and Director General of Athena Research & Innovation Center since April 2021, and a Professor of Informatics at National and Kapodistrian University of Athens since 2002. He obtained his BScE from Princeton University in 1989, and his PhD from UC Berkeley in 1994, both in Computer Science. He has been Tenured researcher at INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France) from 1995 to 2002 and an adjunct researcher since then. He has held visitor’s appointments at various institutions including Tsukuba ETL, Western U. (Ontario), ETH Zurich, USI Lugano, IHES Paris, Ecole des Ponts (Paris). His research interests include Scientific Computing, Computational Geometry, Data Science, Bioinformatics and Robotics. He has been adviser to 17 PhD and 8 Post-doctoral fellows, and coordinated the MSc program on “Data Science & Information technologies” (2018-2021). He is the author of one textbook on Computational Geometry, co-editor of two books, and author of more than 140 journal articles and conference publications, of which two earned the Distinguished Paper Award at ACM International Symposium on Symbolic & Algebraic Computation (ISSAC). He served as Program Committee Chair of ISSAC 2011, General Co-chair of ISSAC 2020, and Local arrangements Chair of CG Week 2024. He has been invited as a plenary speaker at several meetings such as ISSAC 2016, the German Discrete Math Symposium 2018, the Hausdorff Center School on Algorithmic Data Science 2022, and Recent Trends in Computer Algebra at IHP Paris 2023. He served on the Scientific Board of “Hellenic Foundation of Research and Innovation”, representing Mathematics and Informatics (2017-2021), and is today chief scientist of a deep-tech startup.