Eftychios Protopapadakis studied Production Engineering and Management at Technical University of Crete. His educational background includes a M.S. Degree in Management and Business Administration, and a Ph.D. in Decision Systems Design, both at the same university. His research interests focus on machine learning applications in real life problems including maritime surveillance, elder people support, industrial workflow monitoring, cultural heritage applications, structural assessment in transportation tunnel infrastructures, intelligent parking management policies, and radar signal processing for target identification.