George Galanis graduated from Department of Mathematics, University of Athens, Greece with BS, MS, and PhD in Mathematics. He currently works as a Professor and Head of the Section of Mathematics and the Mathematical Modeling and Applications Laboratory at Hellenic Naval Academy, Greece. He is also a Visiting Professor at US Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Ocean Analysis and Prediction Laboratory, USA. He has authored and co-authored more than 100 publications in peer reviewed journals and conference proceedings. His research interests include Mathematical and Statistical Modeling, Optimization, Wave modeling and marine meteorology, Stochastic calculus and applications, and Information Geometry and applications to the optimization of simulation systems.