George Yannis is Professor in Traffic and Safety Engineering with particular focus on Data Science and Director of the Department of Transportation Planning and Engineering of the School of Civil Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA). For more than 30 years, he has contributed extensively in more than 330 research and engineering projects and studies and in several scientific committees of the European Commission and other International Organisations (UNECE, OECD, WHO, World Bank, EIB, CEDR, ERF, IRF, PIARC, UITP, ETSC, ECTRI, WCTR, TRB). He has published more than 900 scientific papers (260 in scientific journals) widely cited worldwide.