Athanasios Loukopoulos received his Diploma in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras, Greece, in 1997, and his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST), Hong Kong, in 2002. He has been a faculty member since 2013. He has published more than 40 research papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings, primarily in the fields of parallel and distributed systems. In 2001, he received a Best Paper Award at the International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP). His current research interests include energy-efficient computing systems, resource management, and optimization problems in distributed systems, with particular emphasis on cloud computing and sensor networks.