Michail N. Giannakos is an ERCIM "Alain Bensoussan" Fellow in the Department of Computer and Information Science at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) and a Visiting Richard T. Cheng Fellow in the Center for Real-time Computing, Virginia, USA. He earned a Ph.D. in Educational Technology from Ionian University, Corfu, Greece. Giannakos is the main author of more than twenty five peer-reviewed research articles in several international journals and conferences in the area of Educational Technology and Computer Science Education. Giannakos is interested in how people learn in the presence of technology and each other. He has worked at several research projects funded by diverse sources like EC, Microsoft Research and NSF.