Dr Christodoulos Efstathiades is the Department Chair of Information Technologies, and the Director of the BSc in Computing and Business Technologies and the MSc in Data Analytics for Business. He is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Limassol (UoL). He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and an MSc in Networked Computer Systems from University College London (UCL). Dr  Efstathiades has held positions in both academia and industry in the fields of Data Management, Data Science, and Analytics. He has worked as a Data Analytics Engineer at the Bank of Cyprus and as a Technology Consultant and Data Engineer at EY Cyprus. He has also lectured at the Department of Computer Science at both the European University Cyprus and the University of Cyprus. His research interests include database systems, geospatial data management for big data, genomic data science, and the application of data mining and machine learning across various scientific domains.