Dimitrios E. Amanatidis graduated in 1993 with a Diploma in Mathematics from University of Crete in Greece and in 1997 with a MSc in Computer Science (Distributed Systems) from University of Essex, UK. On October 2008 he was awarded a PhD (“Motion Estimation and Segmentation of Colour Image Sequences”) from the Faculty of Computing, Information Systems and Mathematics at Kingston University. His professional experience includes more than 25 years of tertiary and graduate-level teaching at various institutions in Greece, Cyprus and UK, participation in a number of EU-funded projects and employment as a researcher for Chemical Process Engineering Research Institute in CERTH, Greece. Research interests and related publications are mainly on the fields of data science, computer vision, machine learning and FPGA/SoC implementations. Dr Amanatidis is currently affiliated with Hellenic Open University.