Kostas Marias is a Professor in Medical Image Processing at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering at the Hellenic Mediterranean University in Greece and is the head and founder of the Computational Biomedicine Laboratory at FORTH-ICS. He served as Principal Researcher at the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research & Technology – Hellas (ICS-FORTH) since 2006. During 2000-2002, he worked as a medical image analysis Research Assistant at the University of Oxford and from 2003-2006 as an Associated Researcher at FORTH-ICS. He received his Ph.D. in Medical Image Analysis and Medical Physics from UCL Royal Free & University College Medical School, working jointly with the University of Oxford, UK. He has been a dedicated professional member of IEEE for 18 years and has served in diverse organizational roles in many important IEEE conferences in the field of biomedical informatics and imaging such as EMBC, BIBE and IST, as a member of the scientific committee, organizing committee, in special sessions, program co-chair, etc. He is a co-author of more than 200 papers in international journals, books and conference proceedings, focusing on medical image processing and analysis, biomedical informatics, image-based modeling and Radiomics / deep learning medical imaging applications.