Prof. Dr. Dimitrios A. Karras
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (NKUA), Dept. General, Hellas (Greece),
GLA & BIHER umiv, India
EPOKA univ., Comp. Engineering Dept., Tirana

Title: EMERGENT DEVELOPMENTS IN AI AND MACHINE LEARNING: A Reliability framework on ML Modelling and Quantum Inspired ML Algorithms to improve problem solving capacities.

Abstract: As machine learning (ML) continues to revolutionize industries, from healthcare and finance to autonomous systems and natural language processing, ensuring the reliability and the efficiency of these models has become a critical concern. Reliability in ML refers to the consistency, robustness, and trustworthiness of model performance, particularly in real-world applications where data is dynamic, noisy, or incomplete. Regarding Reliability, this keynote speech will explore the challenges associated with building reliable ML models, including issues related to data quality, model interpretability, bias, and overfitting. Additionally, it will highlight recent advances in addressing these challenges, such as the use of uncertainty quantification and model validation techniques. The speech will focus on a recent new framework, developed by the speaker, for modelling reliability of ML models based on interval arithmetic based knowledge representations. On the other hand, regarding advancements on the efficiency of ML models this keynote speech will focus on Quantum inspired computations. Quantum computing is poised to transform the field of machine learning (ML) by unlocking new capabilities through quantum-inspired algorithms. While full-scale quantum computing is still in development, quantum-inspired algorithms leverage principles from quantum mechanics to enhance classical machine learning techniques, offering the potential for breakthroughs in speed, efficiency, and problem-solving complexity. This keynote speech will brief some of the advancements of quantum inspired ML models in practical applications attempted by the speaker.

BIO: Assoc. Prof. Dr. Dimitrios A. Karras received his Diploma and M.Sc. Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 1985 and the Ph.D in Electrical Engineering, NTUA, Greece in 1995, with honors. During 1990-2004 he collaborated as visiting professor and researcher with several universities and research institutes in Greece and Heidelberg, Germany (DKFZ). During 2004-2018 he has been with the Sterea Hellas Institute of Technology, Automation Dept., Greece as assoc. prof. in Digital Systems and Signal Processing, as well as visiting prof. at Hellenic Open University, Dept. Informatics in Communication Systems (2002-2010). Since 1/2019 is Associate Prof. in Digital and Intelligent Systems & Signal Processing, in National & Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, School of Science, Dept. General (https://en.uoa.gr, dakarras@uoa.gr) as well as adjunct Assoc. Prof. Dr. with the School of Basic Sciences, BIHER University, Chennai, India, as well as with the GLA university, Mathura, India (https://www.gla.ac.in/academics/faculty-detail/871/prof-dimitrios-karras) and EPOKA & CIT universities, Computer Engineering Dept., Tirana (https://fae.epoka.edu.al/home-computer-engineering-424-1119.htm, https://eis.epoka.edu.al/cv/fullcv/301). He has published more than 94 research refereed journal papers in intelligent and distributed/multiagent systems, pattern recognition, image/signal processing and neural networks as well as in bioinformatics, more than 15 edited books in international publishers and more than 191 research papers in International refereed scientific Conferences. He has given more than 170 invited and keynote speeches at international conferences. His research interests span the fields of intelligent & distributed systems, complex systems and sustainability, multiagent systems, pattern recognition and computational intelligence, image & signal processing/systems, biomedical systems, communications and networking as well as security and sustainability applications. He has served as program committee member as well as program/general chair at many international peer reviewed conferences and workshops in signal, image, communications, and automation systems as well as he is serving as editor in chief and editorial board member in several peer reviewed journals. Citations of his research works from other researchers (10/9/2024)- excluding self-citations- appear in more than 3395//2244 (Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IxQurTMAAAAJ&hl=en) //Semantic Scholar) and 2481 (ResearchGate Index https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Dimitrios_Karras2/, with more than 23626 ResearchGate Index Reads metric) research papers, as well as in more than 1737 research papers in Scopus peer reviewed research database, with H/G indexes 26/71 (Google Scholar), Scopus-H index 17 and RG-Research Interest score 1315 (in the top 5% of the ResearchGate members database).

He is former editor in chief (2008-2016) of the International Journal in Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering (IJSISE). Moreover, he is currently.
• Editor in Chief “International Journal of Innovative Technology and Interdisciplinary Sciences (IJITIS)”, https://www.ijitis.org/index.php/ijitis/about/editorialTeam
• Editor in Chief “International Journal of Applied Mathematics, Computational Science and Systems Engineering”, https://www.wseas.com/journals/amcse/index.php
• Editor in Chief “SPAST reports” journal, https://spast.org/ojspath/about/editorialTeam, https://www.spast.org/index.php/ojspath/index
• Editorial Board Member: Journal Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, Elsevier, (2022-ongoing), https://www.journals.elsevier.com/engineering-applications-of-artificial-intelligence/editorial-board
• Editorial Board Member, Associate editor, Journal CAAI Transactions on Intelligence Technology, IET Digital Library (2019-ongoing), https://digital-library.theiet.org/journals/trit/editors
• Academic Editor: Journal Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, Hindawi/Wiley Limited, ISSN 16879724, 16879732 (2021-ongoing)
• Editorial Board Member: Journal Academia Engineering, Academia.edu (https://www.academia.edu/journals/3/academia_engineering/about/editorial_board)
• Academic editor in the TWSJ, ISRN Communications and the Applied Mathematics Hindawi journals as well as
• associate editor in various scientific journals, including Bentham Science Recent Patents in Engineering Section Editor, Sustainable Solutions and Society journal (Editorial Team | Sustainable Solutions and Society https://spast.org), IJANA (https://www.ijana.in/Editorial%20process.php) and Academic Publishing, Information System and Smart City (http://ojs.acad-pub.com/index.php/ISSC/about/editorialTeam).

In addition, he has organized numerous special issues in indexed journals including the most recent ones,
1) ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing Vol. 22, No. 1, Special Issue on Misinformation, Fake News and Rumor Detection in Low-Resource Languages, https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3505588
2) Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, Hindawi, special issue Nature-inspired Computing for Web Intelligence, https://www.hindawi.com/journals/cin/si/691416/page/7/
3) Journal of Electronic Imaging , SPIE, VISION SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING IN REAL-WORLD CONDITIONS, https://www.spiedigitallibrary.org/journals/journal-of-electronic-imaging/call-for-papers?SSO=1
4) Microprocessors and Microsystems , Elsevier, Emerging Architectures for Energy-efficient and Real-time Cyber-physical Systems, https://research.com/special-issue/emerging-architectures-for-energy-efficient-and-real-time-cyber-physical-systems
5) Computer Systems, Science and Engineering, Tech Science Press, Elucidating Digital and Cognitive Twins in Internet of Things, https://www.techscience.com/csse/special_issues
etc.

Apart from his scientific research, Assoc.Prof. Dr. D.A. Karras is involved in humanitarian projects as Sustainability, Human Rights and Peace passionate being Director of Research and Documentation at AdiAfrica NGO (https://www.adiafricadev.org/team/). His Linkedin profile and current full CV can be found at https://www.linkedin.com/in/dimitrios-a-karras-39a89826/