Prof. Dr. Andreas L. Symeonidis is Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the Chief Research Officer at Cyclopt.com. He received his diploma and PhD at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki in 1999 and 2004, respectively, and concluded his postdoctoral research on the evaluation of agent efficiency in 2005. His research interest include software engineering processes, model-driven engineering, software quality and analytics, middleware robotics, and knowledge extraction from big data repositories. He has worked as a visiting lecturer at the Department of Informatics, University Carlos III Madrid, Spain (2007–2008) and as a consultant for the European Commission.