Nikos Petrellis is a professor in the Electrical and Computer Engineering Department at the University of Peloponnese in Patras, Greece. He was with the University of Thessaly (former TEI of Thessaly) from 2010 to 2019. He has also served as adjunct faculty at the University of Patras and TEI of Mesolonghi from 2003 to 2010. He has worked for several companies, including Atmel Greece, Giga Hellas (Intel Corp.) and Analogies S.A. He has published more than 100 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and conference proceedings. He is the sole or main author of nine international and Greek patents. His research interests include the hardware/software codesign of embedded systems, reconfigurable hardware, VLSI, image and signal processing, ML and AI applications accelerated in hardware, the development of smart phone and cloud-based applications, and the IoT.