Ioannis E. Livieris is an Associate Professor in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the University of Peloponnese, with a research focus on Quantitative Methods and Machine Learning for Data Analysis. He received his PhD in Mathematics and Computational Intelligence from the University of Patras in 2012. He has co-authored more than 67 papers in international scientific journals, 15 book chapters, and 19 conference papers, along with 2 scientific books. With an h-index of 32 and over 4,500 citations (Google Scholar), his research has received international recognition, including his recurring inclusion in the Stanford List of World's Top Scientists - ranking in the top 2% of scientists worldwide in both single year impact and lifetime impact.

He has participated in dozens of national and European research projects, including the Horizon 2020/Horizon Europe projects AIXPERT, ALLIES, DIONE, LevelUp, and ORBIS, serving as Principal Investigator and Technical Coordinator. He serves as a reviewer for numerous international scientific journals and as a member of program committees of many international conferences. He is a member of the Editorial Boards of international journals — including Evolving Systems and Neural Computing & Applications - serving as Area Editor and Associate Editor, and has served as Co-Editor of special issues in leading journals on topics related to Machine Learning, Ensemble Learning, and Time-Series Forecasting.

• Machine learning & Deep Learning
• Numerical Optimization
• Time-series
• AI applications
• Mathematical Programming