Chris Develder is full professor with the research group IDLab in the Department of Information Technology (INTEC) at Ghent University and imec, Ghent, Belgium. He received the M.Sc. degree in computer science engineering and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Ghent University in July 1999 and December 2003 respectively (as a fellow of the Research Foundation, FWO). Chris currently leads two research teams within IDLab: (1) the AI for Energy (AI4E) team works on data analytics and machine learning for energy applications (including smart grids), (2) the Text-to-Knowledge (T2K) team on natural language processing (NLP), with a focus on information extraction and conversational agents.