Prof. Chrysostomos Stylios is the Director of the Industrial Systems Institute, Athena RC, and Professor at the Department of Informatics and Telecommunication, University of Ioannina, Greece, and he was the founder and Director of the Laboratory of Knowledge & Intelligent Computing. Based on his pioneering research on Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs),  FCMs, an XAI methodology has been applied in discipline research areas.   He has published over 300 journals, conference papers, and book chapters. The scientific community has acknowledged his research work, while he has received more than 10.000 citations and has an h-index 51.  Prof. Stylios has been a scientific coordinator for more than 40 R&D projects funded by EU and national funds.  Prof.  Stylios is a senior member of IEEE and a member of the TC 8.2 and TC 5.4 of IFAC.