Dimitris Kounoudis obtained his diploma from National Technical University of Athens in Electrical and Computer Engineering. His undergraduate Thesis was about hate speech detection in a conversational agent using explainable AI. He proceeded to obtain an MSc in Computing from Imperial College London. His Master’s Thesis was about researching blockchain interoperability and creating a cross-chain voting system for governance. His fields of interest are blockchain technology, machine learning and networks and cybersecurity.