Georgios Vardoulias received the Diploma degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, in 1997, and the Ph.D. degree from The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, U.K., 2001. He is currently an Assistant Professor at the Hellenic Naval Academy. Previous positions include Intracom Defense, the National Center of Scientific Research “Demokritos” and Motorola U.K. He has participated as a researcher and project manager in numerous industrial and EU funded research and development projects. His research interests include tactical wireless networks, OT Cybersecurity, federated learning systems for the defense sector, and the application of advanced DSP and machine learning techniques in predictive maintenance for naval rotating equipment.