Dr. Ioannis T. Christou holds a Dipl. Ing. Degree from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece in Electrical Engineering, and an M.Sc. and Ph.D. degree in Computer Sciences from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (U.S.A.). He also holds an MBA from the AthensMBA joint program of NTUA and the Athens University of Economics and Business. He has worked for various large organizations in the USA and Greece, including AT&T Bell Labs, Delta Technology Inc., Lucent Bell Labs Hellas, Intracom S.A., etc. He has taught as adjunct professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, USA, Aalborg University, Denmark, The University of Patras, Greece, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece, and has been a professor at Athens Information Technology. He is currently an Associate Professor at the American College of Greece, Greece, and a Sr. Research Data Scientist at NetCompany-INTRASOFT, Luxembourg.