Andreas PesterAndreas Pester graduated in mathematics from Odessa State University in 1976, he got his PhD from Kiev State University in 1979 and he habilitated at the University of Technology Dresden in 1984. 2020 he retired from the University of Applied Science in Carinthia in Austria. Currently he is a professor for natural language processing and deep learning at the British University in Egypt in Sherouk. He is the author and co-author of more than 75 publications. He was a guest professor at the UPC Barcelona, Technical University Porto, Technical Universities of Kharkov, Technical University Kiev, Polytechnic University St. Petersburg, State University of Petrozavodsk, BTH Karlskrona, University Maribor, UNESP Bauru (Brazil), AUA Erivan and others. He was and is involved in more than 20 EU- and national projects (as project leader or as collaborator), including Erasmus +, TEMPUS, MINERVA etc. His research interests are in deep learning, especially Graph Neural Network architectures and Large Language Models. Actually, he is the co-chair of the IEEE Global Engineering Conference (EDUCON’26), and he chaired also EDUCON’21, Interactive Collaborative and Blended Learning (ICBL) conferences from 2008 – 2019, and is member of the PC of several other conferences etc. He holds the IEEE Education Society Distinguished Chapter Leader Award 2023. He also holds the EDUCON Meritorious Service Award for outstanding contributions to the administrative and management efforts for the IEEE EDUCON conference. Read More Read Less