Christos Orovas is a faculty member at the Department of Products and Systems Design Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Western Macedonia, Greece. He graduated from the Department of Informatics, Technological Educational Institute (TEI) of Thessaloniki in 1993 and completed his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science at the University of York in 2000. He also holds an M.Sc. degree in Bioinformatics and Neuroinformatics from the Hellenic Open University. His main research interests include computational intelligence, neural computing, neuroinformatics, intelligent agents, human computer interaction, and applications of artificial intelligence in big data analysis.