Michail (Michalis) Giannakos is a professor of interaction design and learning technologies at the Department of Computer Science of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), and Head of the Learner-Computer Interaction lab. His research focuses on the design and study of emerging technologies in online and hybrid education settings and on developing new ways for humans to interact with interactive learning systems. Giannakos is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction (Elsevier), and Editorial Board member of IEEE Transactions on Learning Technology, IEEE Transactions on Education, Behaviour & Information Technology, and the International Journal of Information Management. He has co-edited The Multimodal Learning Analytics Handbook (Springer) and co-authored a textbook on Educational Data Analytics for Teachers and School Leaders (Springer). Giannakos has worked on several research projects funded by diverse sources like the European Commission, Microsoft Research, The Research Council of Norway, US-NSF, the German Agency for International Cooperation, and Cheng Endowment. He is one of the experts in the Norwegian ministerial commission for introducing learning analytics to Norwegian K-12 schools and universities.