He serves as Professor at the Department of Informatics and Computer Engineering, University of West Attica. He received his Dipl. Eng. and Ph.D. degrees from the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki. He has authored/coauthored 43 journal papers, 47 papers in international conference proceedings and 6 chapters in collective volumes. His published work has attracted 1204 third-party citations. He has participated as coordinator or researcher in 26 national and international research projects and in 5 educational projects. He has served as reviewer in 54 international journals and 23 international conferences, and he is the author of two books: Procedural Programming and Fuzzy & Neurofuzzy Systems - Fuzzy Deep Learning. His main research area is Computational Intelligence (fuzzy modeling and classification, recurrent neural networks and neurofuzzy models, evolutionary computation with applications to signal processing, biomedical and communications problems, data mining and evolvable hardware). His research interests also include parallel algorithms and nonlinear modeling.