Kyriakos M. Deliparaschos (Senior Member, IEEE) received his B.Eng. (Hons) in Electronic Engineering and M.Sc. in Mechatronics from De Montfort University, UK, and the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece. He earned his Ph.D. from the Department of Signals, Control and Robotics, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA. He currently holds a the Special Teaching Staff position in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Engineering (EECSE) at the Cyprus University of Technology (CUT). He has held academic and research positions at New York College and IST College in Athens, NTUA, CUT, Trinity College Dublin, and Cranfield University. His research interests include embedded systems, reconfigurable hardware acceleration, sensor fusion, resilient cyber-physical systems, intelligent control, real-time robotic navigation, and medical robotics for minimally invasive surgery.