Panos Vagenas is an Advisory Research Engineer at IBM, leading development efforts at the intersection of Artificial Intelligence, Information Retrieval, and Data Management. At IBM since 2020, Panos has helped build various innovative AI technologies, including co-driving the Docling open-source project from its inception as a core developer, maintainer, and Technical Steering Committee member within the LF AI & Data Foundation. With an engineering career spanning over a decade and impact on major projects for organizations like UBS and SAP, he has significant experience in designing and developing industry-leading software solutions. Panos holds an MSc in Computer Science from ETH Zurich and has received multiple awards including the IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Award, the IBM Technical Collaboration Achievement Program Leadership Award, the ACM SIGMOD Best Demonstration Award, and the ETH Zurich Excellence Scholarship.