Prof. Dr. George A. Papakostas received his Diploma, M.Sc., and Ph.D. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Greece, in 1999, 2002, and 2007, respectively. He has 15 years of experience in large-scale systems design as a Senior Software
Engineer and a Technical Manager. He is the Head of the Machine Learning and Vision (MLV) Research Group. He is a tenured Full Professor with the Department of Computer Science, International Hellenic University, Greece. He has (co)authored more than 220 publications in indexed journals, international conferences, book chapters, one book (in Greek), two edited books, and six journal special issues. His publications have over 4000 citations with an H-index of 36 (Google Scholar). His research interests include machine learning, computer/machine vision, pattern recognition, and computational intelligence. Dr. Papakostas is a member of the ACM, IAENG, MIR Laboratories, EUCogIII, and the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE). He is a reviewer in numerous journals and conferences.