Prof. Antoine Bossard,
Kanagawa University, Japan

Biography: Antoine Bossard is a Professor of the Graduate School of Science, Kanagawa University in Japan. He received the BS and MS degrees from Université de Caen Basse-Normandie, France in 2005 and 2007, respectively, and the Ph.D. degree from Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan in 2011. Amongst others, he is in charge of the computer architecture and functional programming lectures for undergraduate students, and of a graph theory lecture for master students. He also is responsible for the functional and logic programming lecture at Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology.
Regarding research activities, Antoine mostly focuses on the following two subjects: interconnection networks (network topologies, routing problems, fault tolerance) and information representation and processing of Chinese characters (e.g. fingerprinting). He is the author of multiple papers in these fields, papers published in international journals and conference proceedings. He has also written several books, for instance for his students of computer architecture and functional programming, and on Chinese characters, with notably a commented translation of the first part of the Dictionarium anamitico-latinum of Jean-Louis Taberd.

Senior Lecturer Sokratis Karkalas,
University of Derby, UK

Biography: Dr. Sokratis Karkalas has been working at the intersection of industry and education since 1991. He holds degrees in economics, business administration, computer science, and pedagogy. Currently, he is a Senior Lecturer in Software Engineering at the University of Derby, where he heads the Education and AI Research Group. He also serves as a Visiting Research Fellow at the UCL Knowledge Lab, University of London.
Dr. Karkalas earned his PhD in Computer Science from the University of London, where he was awarded the Best PhD Project Award by INSTICC (Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication) in 2015. He is an accredited TOGAF Enterprise Architect, a member of the Association of Enterprise Architects (UK), an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (UK), and a member of the British Computer Society – The Chartered Institute for IT.
Prior to his academic career, Dr. Karkalas held the position of Group Chief Information Officer (CIO) for a multinational industrial group and worked as a senior / lead software engineer and project architect at major consulting firms. In these roles, he led the design and development of prototypes for R&D departments. He has contributed to numerous research projects - academic and industrial - funded by the EU, local governments (ESRC/EPSRC), and the private sector.
With over 25 years of academic experience, including 17 years at leading UK universities, Dr. Karkalas' research focuses on computer-supported education, particularly the application of artificial intelligence to improve learning. He applies machine learning techniques to provide personalized support to both students and educators. Dr. Karkalas also has extensive experience designing and implementing information systems for educational and industrial applications, as well as working on technologies that enable the semantic enhancement, integration, and interoperability of diverse components within learning platforms.