Dr Kostas Karpouzis is an assistant professor at the Department of Communication, Media and Culture at Panteion University. His research deals with algorithms that make computer systems more adaptive to how people interact with them and how digital games and gamification can be used to teach conventional and social skills. He also explores the ethical and social values embedded in and influenced by AI systems.

Since 1998 he has been involved in over twenty R&D projects, with prominent examples being the Siren project (the project was voted Best Learning Game in Europe in 2013 by the Games and Learning Alliance), the H2020 iRead project, which produced Navigo, the winner of the GALA Serious Games competition in 2018, and the ongoing Road-STEAMer project, which is designing the European roadmap and proposing policies for teaching STEAM topics in schools and universities.

He has given three talks at TEDx events and his TED-Ed video "Can machines read your emotions?" has been viewed over 670,000 times and translated into 26 languages.