Dr. George A. Papakostas received the diploma in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 1999, and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical and Computer Engineering in 2002 and 2007, respectively, from the Democritus University of Thrace (DUTH), Greece. Dr. Papakostas currently serves as a full Professor in the Department of Computer and Informatics Engineering, Eastern Macedonia and Thrace Institute of Technology, Greece. He has (co)authored more than 70 publications in indexed journals, international conferences and book chapters. His research interests include pattern recognition, computer/machine vision, computational intelligence, machine learning, feature extraction, evolutionary optimization, signal and image processing. Dr. Papakostas served as a reviewer in numerous journals and conferences and he is a member of the IAENG, MIR Labs, EUCogIII and the Technical Chamber of Greece (TEE).