Dr Kostas M. Kolomvatsos received his B.Sc. in Informatics from the Department of Informatics at the Athens University of Economics and Business, his M.Sc. in Computer Science - New Technologies in Informatics and Telecommunications and his Ph.D. from the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (UoA).

Currently, he serves as an Associate Professor in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Thessaly. He is the founder of the Intelligent Pervasive Systems (iPRISM) research group (http://www.iprism.eu/), Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Thessaly and a research collaborator of the Pervasive Computing Research Group (http://p-comp.di.uoa.gr/), Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens and the Essense research group (http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/essence/) School of Computing Science, University of Glasgow. He was a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellow (Individual Grant) in the MSCA-2016 call. He has participated in several European and national research projects. He also serves as the Principal Investigator of research projects (ENFORCE-H2020, SaveWoodenBoats-National Initiative) in the Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Thessaly.

His research interests are in the definition of Intelligent Systems and techniques adopting Machine Learning, Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing for Pervasive Computing, Distributed Systems, Internet of Things, Edge/Cloud Computing and the management of Large Scale Data. In these areas, he has published over 100 articles.