Stamatia Rizou is R&D manager at SingularLogic, where she leads a multi-disciplinary team of more than 10  researchers in the areas of data technologies and AI-enabled applications. She holds a PhD degree in the field of distributed systems from the University of Stuttgart and she has more than 12 years’ experience as principal investigator in European funded R&D projects. She has been project and technical coordinator of several EU R&D  funded by Horizon 2020 and Horizon EU programmes. She has been awarded a MSCA fellowship for her research in the area of Cloud computing and she has been industrial supervisor of more than 5 PhD students in topics related to IoT, cloud computing and data technologies.