Dimitris Zissis

Dimitris Zissis is a Full Professor of Information and Communication Systems at the Department of Product and Systems Design Engineering, University of the Aegean, Greece. He serves as Head of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Laboratory and Director of the MSc Programme in “Autonomous Systems”. He currently represents Greece as National Delegate to the Horizon Europe Programme Committee (Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space). He has also served as an appointed member of two High-Level Expert Groups of the European Commission: the “Business-to-Government Data Sharing” group and the “Facilitating the use of new data sources for official statistics” group. His professional background includes executive roles in the deep tech sector, most notably as a member of the founding team and leadership board of MarineTraffic.com. His research interests include Information and Communication Systems, Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Machine Learning. He has authored more than 120 scientific publications, and his work has attracted over 5,000 citations, with several articles being highly cited in the fields of maritime informatics and data-driven innovation.