Nikolaos Ploskas is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering, University of Western Macedonia. He holds a Ph.D. (2014), M.Sc. (2009), and B.Sc. (2007) in Applied Informatics from the University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece. Before his current appointment, he was employed by Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, as a Postdoctoral Researcher (2015-2018). He has carried out short-term research visits at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA (2018, 2019) and the Cyprus University of Technology, Limassol, Cyprus (2017). He is a Member of INFORMS Computing Society, a Member of SIAG/CSE, a Member of SIAG/OPT, a Member of ACM SIGACT, a Member of ACM SIGHPC, a Member of EUROPT, a Member of EWG-DSS, and a Member of the Hellenic Operational Research Society. He is currently serving on the Editorial Board of four scientific journals. He has served on the Organizing/Program Committee of 17 international conferences.