Dr. Sofia Tsekeridou (f) is currently a Senior Research and Innovation Manager at the Research and Innovation Development Dept. of INTRASOFT International, heading the Security and Safety Lab. Dr. Tsekeridou has been involved, as senior researcher, project and/or technical coordinator as well as senior technical architect and leader of software integration and testing activities/teams, in numerous national, industrial and EU-funded research projects in the areas of multimedia processing, e-learning, data analytics, information security, search engines, recommender systems and knowledge engineering in diverse application domains (public safety and security, e-health, e-learning, e-government, e-tourism, digital libraries, media, entertainment, etc.). She has published many papers in international scientific journals and conferences, and has contributed to the TV Anytime and W3C standardization bodies. She has served as a reviewer to many international scientific conferences and journals. Dr. Tsekeridou is a senior member of IEEE and a member of the Technical Chamber of Greece. She is an active validated member of Europol’s Data Protection Experts Network and has received personnel security clearance from the National Ministry of Defense at EU SECRET and NATO SECRET level.