Petros Maragos received the Diploma in E.E. from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) in 1980 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia Tech, Atlanta, in 1982 and

Zoran Obradovic is an Academician at the Academia Europaea (the Academy of Europe) and a Foreign Academician at the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. He is a L.H. Carnell

Anastasia Ailamaki is a Professor of Computer and Communication Sciences at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) in Switzerland. Her research interests are in data-intensive systems and applications, and in

Alexandra Poulovassilis is Professor of Computer Science at Birkbeck, University of London, as well as Co-Director of the London Knowledge Lab: a joint research collaboration between Birkbeck and the Institute

Dr. MONCEF GABBOUJ received his BS degree in electrical engineering in 1985 from OklahomaStateUniversity, Stillwater, and his MS and PhD degrees in electrical engineering from PurdueUniversity, West Lafayette, Indiana, in

Dr. Nikolaos Mavridis, PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has taught, written about, researched, and built Intelligent Systems and Robots since his early youth. Currently he is serving as

Xin Yao is a professor of computer science from the University of Birmingham, UK. He was also a Distinguished Visiting Professor of the University of Science and Technology of China

Michael Devetsikiotis (IEEE S 1985, M 1994, SM 2003) was born in Thessaloniki, Greece. He received the Dipl. Ing. Degree in Electrical Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki,