Prof. Stefanos Kollias, received the Diploma degree in Electrical Engineering from NTUA in 1979, the M.Sc degree in Communication Engineering from the University of Manchester, U.K., in 1980, and the Ph.D degree in Signal Processing from the Computer Science Division of NTUA in 1984. In 1987-88 he was a Visiting Research Scientist in the Department of Electrical Engineering and the Center for Telecommunications Research, Columbia University, New York, U.S.A. Since 1997  he is Professor of NTUA and Director of Intelligent Systems, Content and Interaction Laboratory (ISCI Lab).